From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752017Ab1IUP3I (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:29:08 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:35008 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750861Ab1IUP3G (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:29:06 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,351,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="51577270" Message-ID: <4E7A02AF.9020106@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:28:47 -0700 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110906 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stultz CC: Richard Cochran , lkml , Sam Ravnborg , gthelen@google.com, tartler@cs.fau.de, Dmitry Fink , Eric B Munson , Bruce Ashfield , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add merge_config.sh script References: <1316582561-23066-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <20110921064423.GA4103@netboy.at.omicron.at> <1316618285.3112.204.camel@work-vm> In-Reply-To: <1316618285.3112.204.camel@work-vm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/21/2011 08:18 AM, John Stultz wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 08:44 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:22:41PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: >>> After noticing almost every distro has their own method of managing >>> config fragments, I went looking at some best practices, and wanted >>> to try to consolidate some of the different approaches so this fairly >>> simple infrastructure can be shared (and new distros/build systems >>> don't have to implement yet another config fragment merge script). >> >> John, >> >> I have been wanting to make or find a way to start with an allnoconfig >> and enable a short list of config options (and the options that are >> needed to allow them). I don't want the other defaults at all. > > "make oldnoconfig" provides something close to this, I think. > >> Can I use your script for this? If not, is there another way to go >> about it? > > I guess my script could take an option to use oldnoconfig instead of the > alldefconfig method. I had considered suggesting this as well. It would be useful for assembling a bare minimum configuration. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel