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 The whole config system is really outdated. 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. 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. 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. regards, dan carpenter
