2017-09-20 22:04:02

by Steve Muckle

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Subject: Android kernel configs (was Re: configs)

On 09/19/2017 10:08 AM, John Stultz wrote:
> So what I was thinking of to improve the developer usability might be
> the following:
>
> 1) Leave the upstream configs in place. We can try to keep
> maintaining them, but its not something the Android team is likely to
> care greatly about, and hopefully can be ignored. Meanwhile for the
> folks tinkering with upstream, there's something that helps them
> figure things out. When the next android-x.y tree comes out, you can
> simply remove it.
>
> 2) To the android-x.y branches, add a script to the kernel/configs/
> dir to fetch the current config directly from the config repo. This
> way its simple for folks to get the right thing w/o looking anything
> up. This won't fly upstream, but should be fine for common.git
>
> Thoughts?

LGTM. If anyone has concerns let me know, otherwise I'll proceed with #2.

thanks,
Steve