On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 20:57 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:49:58PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 20:45 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:35:42PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Russell King wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > No amount of reorganising the Kconfig files into a heirarchial manner > > > > > > (which they already are) helps. Not one bit. Because they already are. > > > > > > That's not where the problem is. > > > > > > > > > > I don't think you read the whole thread. > > > > > > > > > > Earlier on, I explained exactly what I wanted: just add some "select" > > > > > statements to pickt he things you need per the particular target > > > > > configuration. You seem to have missed that part. > > > > > > > > > > In other words, you _can_ encode the information that is in the > > > > > xyz_defconfig files by doing it in Kconfig.xyz files instead. But you do > > > > > it in a human-readable manner. And the hierarchical thing is absolutely > > > > > required for that - otherwise you'd end up with just another form of the > > > > > current xyz_defconfig. > > > > > > > > > > See? > > > > > > > > > > In other words, you should be able to basically use "make allnoconfig" > > > > > together with a Kconfig.xyz file input to select _exactly_ the pieces you > > > > > need, and nothing else. > > > > > > > > If you did this for drivers, what about disabling a driver? If we used > > > > "select" wouldn't that force all the drivers on without allowing it to > > > > be unselected? > > > > > > I already covered that in my (ignored) email where I brought up a > > > "STD_CONFIG" config symbol, which could be disabled to turn off all > > > these additional "select"s. > > > > I didn't ignore it, I guess I just didn't fully understand it .. > > > > So your saying it would drop all the selects, but keep the selected > > options in tact? Or it would just turn off all the selected options? > > config MACH_HALIBUT > bool "Halibut Board (QCT SURF7201A)" > select I2C if STD_CONFIG > select I2C_WHATEVER if STD_CONFIG > ... > > That means if you enable STD_CONFIG, you'll get everything that's required > selected. If you then disable STD_CONFIG, I believe Kconfig leaves > everything that was selected as still being selected. I just did a little test, and it doesn't. Kconfig would un-select all the drivers, at least from my test. > So, what you _could_ do is start off with a blank configuration, then > configure a kernel with STD_CONFIG enabled and you end up with everything > that's required. If you then want to disable something that's selected, > turn off STD_CONFIG first, and you'll be able to turn off individual > options. If my test was correct we would need a new "select" variant that would leave the options turned on in order to get something equal to the current defconfigs. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
