Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:18:30 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8 |
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> > > Those defconfigs would be much smaller and change much less often if > > they could be expressed as a delta from some other defconfig. So we'd > > end up with a small number of base defconfigs plus a set of board > > defconfigs that would say effectively "use the options from that other > > defconfig, plus turn this on and that off". > > IIRC, Fedora builds their kernels using such a mechanism, though it's > done in the RPM specfile with a perl script. Maybe that's something to > look at to start with. kconfig allready allow you to override values simply by appending to the end of the .config file. So it is a matter of creating the proper stuff around to: 1) use it 2) make is simple to update defconfigs A simple extract delta between two config
I'm not up to do that at the moment - but it is doable. And I would hate to see the defconfig disappear just because they are so visible in Linus' dirstat. Sam
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