Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751933AbbEAUtU (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2015 16:49:20 -0400 Received: from lb3-smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net ([194.109.24.29]:59427 "EHLO lb3-smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751233AbbEAUtT (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2015 16:49:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1430513356.3928.48.camel@tiscali.nl> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkkconfigsymbols.py: add option -i to ignore files From: Paul Bolle To: Valentin Rothberg Cc: Russell King , Greg KH , hengelein Stefan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 22:49:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <1430319507-1869-1-git-send-email-valentinrothberg@gmail.com> <1430508696.3928.27.camel@tiscali.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11 (3.12.11-1.fc21) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1822 Lines: 42 [Added Russell, because I, sort, of drop his name.] Valentin Rothberg schreef op vr 01-05-2015 om 22:13 [+0200]: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Paul Bolle wrote: > > Valentin Rothberg schreef op wo 29-04-2015 om 16:58 [+0200]: > >> Sometimes a user might be interested to filter certain reports (e.g., > >> the many defconfigs). > > > > Is this actually useful outside of filtering out defconfigs? > > It's a regex, so we can filter entire paths as well (e.g., -i > 'arch/.*' to ignore all issues in arch/). Until now, I only used it > to get rid of all the defconfigs. So, perhaps we're better off by just skipping defconfigs? > As far as I know, it's really hard to manually configure certain > boards. With defconfigs, only few people have to go through the fire. > Two years ago I tried to manually select a kernel configuration for my > Nexus 7 and failed desperately since some feature constraints are just > not visible/understandable from the menu. Not that I am an ARM > developer, but there I understood the need to have a defconfig : ) See https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/355 . Manually configuring from scratch is, I think, simply not doable. About the only advice I'd dare to give someone would be: somehow get a .config that works for your machine, however old that .config might be, and use it as your base. Probably by doing yes "" | make oldconfig >/dev/null So I guess my question is: is a defconfig to be considered a ".config that works for your machine"? And, yes, I realize "works" is a very broad goal. Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/