From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A1EC56202 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:46:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12889208CA for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:46:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388179AbgKZKpo (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:45:44 -0500 Received: from codesynthesis.com ([188.40.148.39]:59172 "EHLO codesynthesis.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726321AbgKZKpn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:45:43 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 413 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:45:42 EST Received: from brak.codesynthesis.com (unknown [105.225.210.110]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by codesynthesis.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AEC875F6C4; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by brak.codesynthesis.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1C0AB1A800C5; Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:38:41 +0200 (SAST) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:38:41 +0200 From: Boris Kolpackov To: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Masahiro Yamada , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Johannes Berg , Felix Fietkau , Patrick Franz , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Junio C Hamano , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kconfig as a git subtree on Linux Message-ID: References: <20201125172544.GJ4332@42.do-not-panic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201125172544.GJ4332@42.do-not-panic.com> Organization: Code Synthesis User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Luis Chamberlain writes: > I'd like to propose we discuss the possibility of taking kconfig and > making it a git subtree under the Linux kernel. This would allow > other projects outside of the Linux kernel to be able to update their > own copy / fork of kconfig in a jiffie *very* easily. I am maintaining one such copy/fork[1] and for me the effort to pull in the new version of upstream (which I currently do by just copying scripts/kconfig/*) is nothing compared to the effort of maintaining a set of patches[2] on top of that which are necessary to make kconfig buildable on other platforms and usable with other build systems. So unless there is also an agreement that such portability patches are now welcome, this is not going to be a major improvement for me. And right now such patches are clearly not welcome[3] (but no hard feelings; I wouldn't touch Windows with a ten-foot pole if I could help it). [1] https://github.com/build2-packaging/kconfig [2] https://github.com/build2-packaging/kconfig/commits/upstream-5.10-rc1 [3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kbuild/msg27460.html