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Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper

From Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper
Date 2016-03-26 20:10 +0100
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Le samedi 26 mars 2016 à 19:53 +0100, Sam Ravnborg a écrit :
> 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,

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, low-level free software developer on embedded devices

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[PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr> - 2016-03-26 19:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr> - 2016-03-26 20:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add localdefconfig helper Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> - 2016-03-26 20:10 +0100

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