Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sat Mar 26 2016 - 15:00:52 EST


On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> This introduces a localdefconfig make target to specify out-of-tree default
> configs. The out-of-tree default target is selected by defining
> KBUILD_LOCALDEFCONFIG in the make command line.
>
> The intent of this change is to easily allow using default configs that are not
> part of the kernel source (e.g. for a specific device or use case), without ever
> touching the kernel source tree.
>
Does this differ from what you can achieve with KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG?
See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt

>From a quick glance the functionality is the same.

Sam