Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:03:02 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add ``cloneconfig'' target | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 23:18, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 02:47:01PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: >> > We already have something remotely similar in kconfig. >> > We use the following list: >> > config DEFCONFIG_LIST >> > string >> > depends on !UML >> > option defconfig_list >> > default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" >> > default "/etc/kernel-config" >> > default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" >> > default "$ARCH_DEFCONFIG" >> > default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" >> > >> I may argue that anything within the Linux tree which point >> _by_default_ to something outside the tree itself is broken. > The above allows the average user to just type "make menuconfig" > and then the configuration of the current kernel is presented to > the user. This is convinient in many cases. > We know the /proc/config.gz is an incresingly popular way to gain > access to the configuration of the running kernel. So extending > the already know and working way to obtaing the configuration > of the running kernel to suppport /proc/config.gz is logical.
Does this detect cross-compiling? The 'depends on !UML' triggered me...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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