Hi, I just wanted to say that I've been accepted into this year's Google Summer of Code program and will spend this summer working on improving the kconfig system in a very particular direction: I want to integrate a proper boolean constraint satisfiability solver into the configuration editors (menuconfig, etc.) in order to allow partial/incomplete configuration specifications. In short, this means that the user can choose to not specify a particular value for some config options, but let the system deduce their values. This will hopefully improve usability and also solve the select problem once and for all. A slightly shortened version of the project proposal that was accepted can be found here: http://userweb.kernel.org/~vegard/gsoc2010/proposal-short.html In case anybody would like to track my progress throughout the summer, I have set up my public project repositories at: http://github.com/vegard/dpll http://github.com/vegard/linux-2.6-kconfig-sat I am also planning to post some updates to LKML as milestones are completed. (Please let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from the Cc list.) The official end date is August 16, by which time I hope to have submitted my work for mainline inclusion. Feedback is appreciated -- I am also prepared to respond to constructive criticism. Lastly, I would like to thank Google for sponsoring me, and to thank Portland State University and my mentor Bart Massey for believing in this idea and project. Vegard -- 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
