-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/2011 04:03 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven 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? The 'depends on !UML' triggered me... No, and it never has. The DEFCONFIG_LIST feature has been mostly unaltered since it was added in Jun 2006. Prior to that it was hardcoded into scripts/kconfig/confdata.c since before 2002. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1qj7kACgkQLPWxlyuTD7J/ZwCfQzFM6Qo+1Va5RTYKj4bXEydm 28EAoINVyrH+F4hYhCWSkXYCq3Y0euY/ =T1qc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
