Re: [RFC] kconfig: introduce alldefconfig + savedefconfig

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 02:47:40 EST


Hi Sam,

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:38:08PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> After reading some of the mails about the
> defconfig files I decided to take a look at kconfig.
>
> We already decided to go for a solution where the defconfig
> files contains only the minimal configuration.
> Uwe developed a script to assist but having native support
> in kconfig is preferable.
>
> This patch set introduce "alldefconfig".
> alldefconfig create a configuration with all values set
> to default values.
> This can be usefull when we check if we do have a sane
> set of default values. Rhe config can be inspected
> using menuconfig.
>
> The patches also introduce "savedefconfig" which
> reads the current configuration and save it
> as a minimal configuration.
>
> In my testing I benchmarked it with one
> of the arm defconfings and the final result is
> the same (symbols appear in different order).
I would prefer to have them in the same order. I havn't checked the
details, but I really like getting support for minimal defconfigs done
in kconfig directly.

Thanks
Uwe

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