On 28.10.2011 14:29, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 28.10.2011 09:54, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does. > > > > > > > > This fits in the generic "I have a .config and I want to enable an > > > > additional option" functionality: > > > > > > > > make oldconfig CONFIG_KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE=y > > > > > > > > Don't we already have that support? I seem to remember it flying > > > > by. Or was it just a proposal that never got implemented? > > > > > > Well, it would be nice to have something (much) shorter and more > > > obvious, as we really expect to use this frequently. > > > > > > Maybe: > > > > > > make oldconfig kvm > > > > Maybe something more obvious?: > > make modconfig kvm > > or > > make modconfig=kvm > > Well, i run distinctly non-modular kernels so modconfig would not be > particularly good. Also, many of the features enabled are non-modular > core kernel features to begin with. I thougt about that just as i send the e-mail, to near to "mod"ular. What i meant was "mod"ify. And AFAICS there currently is no "modconfig", only an "allmodconfig" (and "localmodconfig") With no letters dropped it would be less ambiguous. make modifyconfig=kvm Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- 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
