Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: apuv2: fix input dependencies
From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Mar 05 2019 - 08:56:29 EST
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 3:50 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05.03.19 09:23, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 1. try to use 'depends on' if you can
>
> Well, this has the unpleasant side effect that we often have to enable
> a lot of things, just to even see the individual driver. For people who
> just wanna configure a kernel for their board, this is a bit nasty.
>
> But, okay, I'm going to do this w/ my own tool - I've written a small
> tool that allows easy kernel reconfiguration on a higher level: you
> can just pick some board templates and enable high level features like
> eth, gpu, etc - it automatically creates a .config for you. I'm going
> announce it on lkml soon.
Darren gave a talk about merging kernel configs to get something like
you want to.
This tool is quite long already lying around. merge_config.sh in your
kernel source tree.
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko