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From: dick.streefland@altium.nl (Dick Streefland)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What about make mergeconfig ?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:18:55 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d6d.453f3a0f.92d2c@altium.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1161755164.22582.60.camel@localhost.localdomain

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
| I'm not good enough at make and friends to do that myself without
| spending a lot more time than I have at hand, but I figured it might be
| something doable in a blink for whoever knows Kconfig guts :)
| 
| What about something like:
| 
| make mergeconfig <path_to_file>
| 
| That would merge all entries in the specified file with the
| current .config. By mergeing, that basically means that rule:
| 
| N + N = N
| m + N = m
| Y + N = Y
| m + Y = Y
| 
| (that is, we basically take for each entry max(.config, merge file)

Can't you do that with just a sort command?

  sort .config other.config > new.config

-- 
Dick Streefland                      ////                      Altium BV
dick.streefland@altium.nl           (@ @)          http://www.altium.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25  5:46 What about make mergeconfig ? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-25  6:59 ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-25 10:01 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-25 13:52   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-25 10:18 ` Dick Streefland [this message]
2006-10-25 11:39   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-25 12:07     ` Dick Streefland
2006-10-26  8:00       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-26  9:03         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-10-26 11:25           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-26 12:00             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-10-27  9:58               ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-27 11:14                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-10-25 17:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-26 10:50 ` Samuel Tardieu

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