Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751584Ab1BZXDQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:03:16 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:33500 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751369Ab1BZXDO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:03:14 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Do8Dbue9tiVdbd6mtSko8cUrrO4bp9bo//nAcNCakNaUDArGJoHaVAEhAD2LFJm6YV Pte1iuVsB6x4jMIlx1rCVFKIt3zIrfE+cT3o16RkOTds2Txx9x1VOWkHnfRUDwgJ5zoy Lb+ZQiYtj6NPWZTC9CpqSXLHqf9q+rWhfcZeU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110226221838.GA24028@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <4D671556.80607@suse.com> <20110225060706.GA12723@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20110226221838.GA24028@merkur.ravnborg.org> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:03:13 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ``cloneconfig'' target From: Arnaud Lacombe To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Jeff Mahoney , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Roman Zippel , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1884 Lines: 48 Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 02:47:01PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> > We already have something remotely similar in kconfig. >> > We use the following list: >> > config DEFCONFIG_LIST >> > ? ? ? ?string >> > ? ? ? ?depends on !UML >> > ? ? ? ?option defconfig_list >> > ? ? ? ?default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" >> > ? ? ? ?default "/etc/kernel-config" >> > ? ? ? ?default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" >> > ? ? ? ?default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" >> > ? ? ? ?default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" >> > >> I may argue that anything within the Linux tree which point >> _by_default_ to something outside the tree itself is broken. > The above allows the average user to just type "make menuconfig" > and then the configuration of the current kernel is presented to > the user. I'm sure there is a way to do this from the Kbuild and not from the Kconfig. > This is convinient in many cases. this is a subjective point of view. I do build a lot of kernel for anything but the current machine I'm using. > We know the /proc/config.gz is an incresingly popular way to gain > access to the configuration of the running kernel. So extending > the already know and working way to obtaing the configuration > of the running kernel to suppport /proc/config.gz is logical. Then again, this should be doable from Kbuild. > The fact that the configuration is gzipped does not warrant > a new option to deal with this that almost duplicate the > existing functionality. > agree. - Arnaud -- 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/