Hi, On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:03 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. Syncing kconfig files is easy since the files are collected in the single place, scripts/kconfig/. It is true you need some efforts to introduce Kconfig in your project, but once established, it is just a matter of copying files under scripts/kconfig. Copying stuff directly from Linux would be as easy as doing so from your init-kconfig. > This may also be useful if folks want to test R&D code on a smaller > compartamentalized codebase. > > If you find this useful and you'd like to help keep it in sync, send > patches my way as the kernel's kconfig evolves. The code is up on > gitlab [3]. > > Do we want to document this option on Linux in case folks want to try > and embrace kconfig on their own for other projects? > > [0] http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~shshe/kconfig_semantics.pdf > [1] http://gsd.uwaterloo.ca/sites/default/files/vm-2013-berger.pdf > [2] http://gsd.uwaterloo.ca/sites/default/files/ase241-berger_0.pdf > [3] https://gitlab.com/mcgrof/init-kconfig > > Luis Looks like init-kconfig is trying to build some objects as demo. obj-y = main.o obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o obj-$(CONFIG_BAR) += bar.o obj-$(CONFIG_BAZ) += baz.o obj-$(CONFIG_ALPHA) += alpha/ FWIW, this is something I played with some time ago. Kbuild Skeleton https://github.com/masahir0y/kbuild_skeleton It consists of some core Makefiles and Kconfig. >From the time-stamp, it is already 6 years too old. I am not sure if it is useful for people, if so, it is pretty easy to sync up with the latest Linux. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
