Hi, On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 23:18, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 02:47:01PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > We already have something remotely similar in kconfig. >>> > We use the following list: >>> > config DEFCONFIG_LIST >>> > string >>> > depends on !UML >>> > option defconfig_list >>> > default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" >>> > default "/etc/kernel-config" >>> > default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" >>> > default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" >>> > default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" >>> > >>> I may argue that anything within the Linux tree which point >>> _by_default_ to something outside the tree itself is broken. >> The above allows the average user to just type "make menuconfig" >> and then the configuration of the current kernel is presented to >> the user. This is convinient in many cases. >> We know the /proc/config.gz is an incresingly popular way to gain >> access to the configuration of the running kernel. So extending >> the already know and working way to obtaing the configuration >> of the running kernel to suppport /proc/config.gz is logical. > > Does this detect cross-compiling? > No. % gmake ARCH=mips menuconfig # # using defaults found in /boot/config-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 # [...] % gmake CROSS_COMPILE=bla ARCH=mips menuconfig # # using defaults found in /boot/config-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 # [...] Which is plainly just wrong. - Arnaud > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > -- 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