On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 01:02:49PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > Every now and then a project is born, and they decide to use Linux's > kconfig to enable configuration of their project. As it stands we *know* > kconfig is now used in at least over 12 different projects [0]. I myself > added kconfig to one as well years ago. Even research reveals that > kconfig has become one of the leading industrial variability modeling > languages [1] [2]. > > What is often difficult to do though is to start off using kconfig and > integrating it into a project. Or updating / syncing to the latest > kconfig from upstream Linux. > > I had yet another need to use kconfig for another small project so > decided to make a clean template others can use and help keep it in sync. > This is a passive fork which aims to keep in sync with the Linux > kernel's latest kconfig to make it easier to keep up to date and to > enable new projects to use and embrace kconfig on their own. The goal > is *not* to fork kconfig and evolve it separately, but rather keep in > sync with the evolution of kconfig on Linux to make it easier for > projects to use kconfig and also update their own kconfig when needed. Is there a *fundamental* reason that we couldn't have this *be* Linux kconfig, whether pulled in by submodule or regular merges, and avoid having any divergence at all?
