On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:56:34PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >Here's my rebase of the prior push of streamline-config.pl. > >What this patch series does, is add my streamline-config.pl as a make >option for users. What streamline-config.pl does is to look at the >modules loaded in the system (lsmod) and then scans all the Makefiles >and Kconfigs in the current directory tree to find what configs need >to be set for the modules that are loaded. > >It then looks at the .config (if .config is not found, it looks >in /boot, /proc/config.gz, vmlinux, configs.ko for .configs that it >may be able to use). This script will remove all options set as =m that >does not need to be set in order to build the modules found by lsmod. > >NOTE: This does not touch any =y option. If you do make allyesconfig >and then run this, it will have not effect anything. Nor does this enable >any thing that is not set. Although we may change this in the future. > >This patch series provides: > > make localmodconfig > >which will look for a .config to streamline. Then it will run silentoldconfig >to clean up any missing options. > > make localyesconfig > >will remove all =m that is not needed to build the modules provided >by lsmod, and then convert the rest to =y. Note, once you do this, no more >changes will be made by these scripts. > >This is idea to help testers. Since a lot of people download a kernel >from kernel.org and then uses the distro config to configure it. This can >take hours to build. Now all a tester needs to do, is to download the >kernel from kernel.org and run "make localmodconfig". This will disable >most of the modules that are set in distro kernels and speed up the >build time by magnitudes! Awesome!! If I understand this correctly, this is what many people desired to have to configure kernel automatically. I am just a little bit confused by the names "streamline" and "localXXconfig", how about "autoconfig" ? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
