Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753890AbcCZTAs (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:00:48 -0400 Received: from asavdk3.altibox.net ([109.247.116.14]:58638 "EHLO asavdk3.altibox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753658AbcCZTAq (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:00:46 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 453 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:00:45 EDT Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:53:06 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Paul Kocialkowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek , "Yann E . MORIN" Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper Message-ID: <20160326185306.GA4133@ravnborg.org> References: <1459017087-11640-1-git-send-email-contact@paulk.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1459017087-11640-1-git-send-email-contact@paulk.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=YbIdn1lf c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=Ij76tQDYWdb01v2+RnYW5w==:117 a=Ij76tQDYWdb01v2+RnYW5w==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=pMYxv4hryl0EtDltdAEA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 15 On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: > This introduces a localdefconfig make target to specify out-of-tree default > configs. The out-of-tree default target is selected by defining > KBUILD_LOCALDEFCONFIG in the make command line. > > The intent of this change is to easily allow using default configs that are not > part of the kernel source (e.g. for a specific device or use case), without ever > touching the kernel source tree. > Does this differ from what you can achieve with KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG? See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt >From a quick glance the functionality is the same. Sam