Sometimes it is useful to preserve batches of configs when making localmodconfig. For example, I usually don't want any usb and fs modules to be disabled. Now we can do it by: $ make LOCALMODCONFIG_PRESERVE="drivers/usb;fs" localmodconfig Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: fix typo in documentation. (Randy Dunlap) --- Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 8 +++++++- scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index cc6151fc0845..2fff55834085 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -209,10 +209,16 @@ Configuring the kernel store the lsmod of that machine into a file and pass it in as a LSMOD parameter. + Also, you can preserve modules in certain folders + or kconfig files by spcifying their paths in + parameter LOCALMODCONFIG_PRESERVE. + target$ lsmod > /tmp/mylsmod target$ scp /tmp/mylsmod host:/tmp - host$ make LSMOD=/tmp/mylsmod localmodconfig + host$ make LSMOD=/tmp/mylsmod \ + LOCALMODCONFIG_PRESERVE="drivers/usb;drivers/gpu;fs" \ + localmodconfig The above also works when cross compiling. diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl b/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl index e2f8504f5a2d..ab5d1e10a5d0 100755 --- a/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl +++ b/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ my %depends; my %selects; my %prompts; my %objects; +my %config2kfile; my $var; my $iflevel = 0; my @ifdeps; @@ -201,6 +202,7 @@ sub read_kconfig { if (/^\s*(menu)?config\s+(\S+)\s*$/) { $state = "NEW"; $config = $2; + $config2kfile{"CONFIG_$config"} = $kconfig; # Add depends for 'if' nesting for (my $i = 0; $i < $iflevel; $i++) { @@ -592,6 +594,22 @@ while ($repeat) { my %setconfigs; +my @presevered_kconfigs; +@presevered_kconfigs = split(/;/,$ENV{LOCALMODCONFIG_PRESERVE}) if (defined($ENV{LOCALMODCONFIG_PRESERVE})); + +sub in_presevered_kconfigs { + my $kconfig = $config2kfile{$_[0]}; + if (!defined($kconfig)) { + return 0; + } + foreach my $excl (@presevered_kconfigs) { + if($kconfig =~ /^$excl/) { + return 1; + } + } + return 0; +} + # Finally, read the .config file and turn off any module enabled that # we could not find a reason to keep enabled. foreach my $line (@config_file) { @@ -644,6 +662,11 @@ foreach my $line (@config_file) { } if (/^(CONFIG.*)=(m|y)/) { + if (in_presevered_kconfigs($1)) { + dprint "Preserve config $1"; + print; + next; + } if (defined($configs{$1})) { if ($localyesconfig) { $setconfigs{$1} = 'y'; -- 2.25.1