Em Wed, 1 Apr 2020 13:59:49 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:36:31PM -0300, Helen Koike wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 3/25/20 1:03 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > That's the second part of media Kconfig changes. The entire series is > > > at: > > > > > > https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=media-kconfig > > > > I made a quick experiment (using this branch) with someone who works > > with the kernel for his master degree, but doesn't have much experience in kernel development in general. > > I asked him to enable Vimc (from default configs, where multimedia starts disabled). > > The whole config system is really outdated. Agreed. Btw, when compiled against Qt 5.14, "make xconfig" is currently broken. I'm sending in a few some fixup patches for it. > It should be that this task was done with a command like "kconfig enable > vimc". It would ask necessary questions and pull in the dependencies > automatically. Yes. That's something that it is missing for a long time. There were some efforts to add a SAT solver at the Kernel that could be used for that, but I dunno what's current status. > Twenty years ago it made sense to go through the menus and select things > one by one. Does anyone really start from defconfig any more? Surely > everyone starts with a known working config and just enables specific > options. Yeah, that's my feeling too. > I started to hack together some code to create a kconfig program to > enable and disable options. The problem is that all library code > assumes we want to display menus so it was a lot of work and I gave up. :-( Thanks, Mauro
