From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Add missing rule for config-devices.mak
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:13:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <heluuh$d9p$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B0E57AC.5090401@mail.berlios.de>
> What about overwriting it automatically when it was not modified
> by the user? This would only need a backup copy of the original
> default configuration. I assume that most users don't change
> config-devices.mak, so they would be happy with this solution.
> Calling "make defconfig" is only the second best solution for them.
>
> A more sophisticated solution could try to create a patch from
> original default configuration and user modified configuration.
> Make could try to apply this patch to the new default configuration,
> and if there is no conflict, all is fine as well.
What about writing an include directive for the default config instead?
Then the user can add his overrides to the bottom of the include.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-26 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-22 14:07 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: Add missing rule for config-devices.mak Stefan Weil
2009-11-22 14:20 ` Scott Tsai
2009-11-23 18:55 ` Paul Brook
[not found] ` <m33a45ia0a.fsf@neno.neno>
2009-11-26 10:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Weil
2009-11-26 13:13 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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