On 21/07/2022 17:33, Scott Branden wrote: > Hi Arnd, > > On 2022-07-21 07:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> >> >> A lot of Kconfig options have changed over the years, and we tend >> to not do a blind 'make defconfig' to refresh the files, to ensure >> we catch options that should not have gone away. >> >> I used some a bit of scripting to only rework the bits where an >> option moved around in any of the defconfig files, without also >> dropping any of the other lines, to make it clearer which options >> we no longer have. > Resync is fine. But, it would be great if the defconfig files were kept > in sync. Almost every kernel version kconfig options change which affect > these files. Could we put in place a defconfig refresh per kernel > version to keep them all in sync going forward? > Not entirely, because some Kconfig changes are causing symbols to disappear. Also defconfig is expected to include user-visible options, even if savedefconfig would drop them. This is why blind savedefconfig is not acceptable. Best regards, Krzysztof
