Felipe> For several years I've used a trick to be able to maintain a simple defconfig Felipe> that works across many versions, and requires little maintenance from my Felipe> part: Felipe> % cat arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig ~/my-config > .config && make olddefconfig Felipe> I'm sending a proposal to integrate it on the build system so that many people Felipe> can do the same in a simple manner. Felipe> The interesting part is how to generate this simplified defconfig. In a Felipe> nutshell; you want to take your .config, remove everything that is the default Felipe> in the Kconfig files (what savedefconfig does), but also removes anything that Felipe> is in the default defconfig (e.g. x86_64_defconfig) Felipe> I've been doing this by hand, but today I gave it a shot to automate this. The Felipe> result is a bit crude, but it works. Felipe> Thoughts? I like this idea, it makes alot of sense to me, and looks like it will simplify things for people. -- 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
