On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 12:27:05PM +0200, Marian Marinov wrote: > You simply need to enable it in your .config file and rebuild. that simply doesn't always work; for example I started with a minimal defconfig and want to enable SENSORS_APPLESMC, from nconfig I can search this one get it depends HWMON && INPUT, if the current .config doesn't have HWMON and I just write SENSORS_APPLESMC=m there, the following rebuild will deselect SENSORS_APPLESMC actually; ┌── Search Results ───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Symbol: SENSORS_APPLESMC [=m] │ │ Type : tristate │ │ Prompt: Apple SMC (Motion sensor, light sensor, keyboard backlight) │ │ Location: │ │ -> Device Drivers │ │ -> Hardware Monitoring support (HWMON [=y]) │ │ Defined at drivers/hwmon/Kconfig:299 │ │ Depends on: HWMON [=y] && INPUT [=y] && X86 [=y] │ │ Selects: NEW_LEDS [=y] && LEDS_CLASS [=y] && INPUT_POLLDEV [=y] │ │ │ │ <OK> │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I am asking a config method that accepts a list of config items (or module names), let it make sure all depended items also be selected? thanks, > > Marian > > On 12/25/2015 03:30 AM, Derek Cheugn wrote: > > hi all, > > > > I have a simple question (have searched but didn't get any good answer > > yet): > > > > what's the best way to enable a config item without interactive > > interface? if I know the module name, I can find the CONFIG_ name by > > this: then in menuconfig to search SENSORS_APPLESMC to enable it; > > > > $ find -name Makefile |xargs grep -w applesmc > > ./drivers/hwmon/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_SENSORS_APPLESMC) += applesmc.o > > > > but is there a good way to enable it without interactive interface? > > > > the interactive config interfaces (menuconfig/gconfig/xconfig) are good > > for one or two configs, but when I want to enable a list of modules, > > this solution is not scalable; > > > > I've tried localmodconfig with LSMOD= env variable, but the > > localmodconfig doesn't seem to be working in this way, I feel it's > > working by an elimination way, to start from a known to be working > > config (maybe from a distro or somewhere) > > > > $ LSMOD=~/tmp/modules-merged make localmodconfig > > > > while, I want to start with `make defconfig` and enable a list of config > > needed; that to accept a list of CONFIG_* names, or a list of modules > > name, does anyone if such a config method exists? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-config" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
