To better automate kernel building when I only need to modify a few options, I want to write something like: make defconfig CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y and have all dependency conflicts that might generate solved with `make silentoldconfig`. Is there such a command? Alternatives I've found and why I'm not satisfied: - `sed`: requires typing up a sed command or an alias. - prepare a `.config` file, and copy it around. Overhead of copying and remembering the path or creating an alias Disadvantages of both of the above: do not reuse the build directory information given to `make`, either through `O=` or `KBUILD_OUTPUT`. Of course, our alias could take them into account, but that adds more overhead again. Also asked at: - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7505164/how-do-you-non-interactively-turn-on-features-in-a-linux-kernel-config-file?answertab=active#tab-top - http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19905/non-interactive-configuration-of-linux-kernel If anyone would review a patch for that, I will attempt it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs