Re: [PATCH 5/5] selftests/nolibc: generate config automatically

Thomas Weißschuh
2023-10-24T16:17:30Z

Oct 22, 2023 11:37:05 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>:

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 02:34:00PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
>> This new target generates a .config if none exists yet.
>>
>> Also drop the defconfig target with its hidden call to 'mrproper' which
>> is fairly invasive.
>> If users want to overwrite their kernel existing kernel configuration
>> they can do so easily from the toplevel directory.
>
> Hmmm I'm not sure about that one, I pretty much remember seeing failing
> arm64 builds when mrproper and prepare were missing.
>
> I would argue that someone starting "make defconfig" does expect the
> config to be dropped, hence mrproper to be called as well.
>
> What specific issue did you face with it ? Maybe we can restrict it to
> only a few cases ?

It was mostly a quality improvement for my testscript, where the config was generated
automatically.

And then I dropped the combined defconfig target
because it seemed unnecessary.

Let's drop this patch.

Thomas