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[209.132.180.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 101-v6si2348288ple.326.2018.10.04.13.25.34; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727540AbeJEDUU (ORCPT + 99 others); Thu, 4 Oct 2018 23:20:20 -0400 Received: from mslow2.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.242]:57370 "EHLO mslow2.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727354AbeJEDUU (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2018 23:20:20 -0400 Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (unknown [217.70.183.200]) by mslow2.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89EC3A34A8; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 22:09:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Originating-IP: 134.134.139.83 Received: from localhost (unknown [134.134.139.83]) (Authenticated sender: josh@joshtriplett.org) by relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2BF4420006; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 20:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 13:09:00 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: Luis Chamberlain Cc: LKML , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada , Randy Dunlap , Sam Ravnborg , Petr Vorel , Steven Rostedt , Johannes Berg , Valentin Rothberg , Vegard Nossum , Felix Fietkau , kconfig-sat@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [kconfig-sat] [ANN] init-kconfig - easy way to embrace Linux's kconfig Message-ID: <20181004200859.GA10237@localhost> References: <20181004200249.GL5238@garbanzo.do-not-panic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181004200249.GL5238@garbanzo.do-not-panic.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 01:02:49PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > Every now and then a project is born, and they decide to use Linux's > kconfig to enable configuration of their project. As it stands we *know* > kconfig is now used in at least over 12 different projects [0]. I myself > added kconfig to one as well years ago. Even research reveals that > kconfig has become one of the leading industrial variability modeling > languages [1] [2]. > > What is often difficult to do though is to start off using kconfig and > integrating it into a project. Or updating / syncing to the latest > kconfig from upstream Linux. > > I had yet another need to use kconfig for another small project so > decided to make a clean template others can use and help keep it in sync. > This is a passive fork which aims to keep in sync with the Linux > kernel's latest kconfig to make it easier to keep up to date and to > enable new projects to use and embrace kconfig on their own. The goal > is *not* to fork kconfig and evolve it separately, but rather keep in > sync with the evolution of kconfig on Linux to make it easier for > projects to use kconfig and also update their own kconfig when needed. Is there a *fundamental* reason that we couldn't have this *be* Linux kconfig, whether pulled in by submodule or regular merges, and avoid having any divergence at all?