Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add merge_config.sh script

From: Darren Hart
Date: Wed Sep 21 2011 - 11:29:10 EST




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
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