Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper

From: Paul Kocialkowski
Date: Sat Mar 26 2016 - 15:03:48 EST


Le samedi 26 mars 2016 Ã 19:53 +0100, Sam Ravnborg a ÃcritÂ:
> 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.

It looks like my suggestion is equivalent to specifying KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG and
running the alldefconfig target, indeed!

Thanks for pointing this out, I suppose this patch can be disregarded then.

Cheers,

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