Re: [PATCH] add diffconfig utility

2008-06-11 Thread Holger Schurig
Nice. Would it be helpful to compare .config.old to .config if you don't provide any command line arguments? scripts/diffconfig would then do the job. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

Re: [PATCH] console - Add configurable support for console charset translation

2008-06-11 Thread Holger Schurig
> Does the linux-tiny approach of adding a kconfig variable for > each 5kB of code actually make sense? I'm asking since an > exploding amount of kconfig variables and their > interdependencies have a not so small maintainance impact in > the long term. I don't want to answer for the general case,

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Christian MICHON
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Tim Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chance of getting your minimal configs from Firmware Linux mainlined? > > Does anyone else think this would be valuable? If not in mainline, it > would be nice to collect them somewhere, to compare what options different >

Re: [PATCH] add diffconfig utility

2008-06-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Tim Bird wrote: > +merge_style = 0 > +if "-m" in sys.argv: > +merge_style = 1 > +sys.argv.remove("-m") > + > +if "-h" in sys.argv or len(sys.argv) < 3: ^^^ No checking for excess arguments? With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven

Re: [PATCH] add diffconfig utility

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Bird
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > No checking for excess arguments? Holger Schurig wrote: > Would it be helpful to compare .config.old to .config if you > don't provide any command line arguments? Both good ideas. These are implemented in the latest version. Note that I check for and use KBUILD_OUTPUT

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Bird
Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: >>> >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig >> So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? > > Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see more use. Only very few > people know the KCONFIG_ALL*CONFIG= trick. I

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > >>> > >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > >> So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? > > > > Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > >>> > >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > >> So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? > > > > Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:36:39PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > > >>> > > >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > > >> So you're renaming KCONFI

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Bird
Adrian Bunk wrote: > Randy's patch that documents KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG is in Linus' tree since > April 2006. Well, dangit there it is! The patch I googled had it going into Documentation/kbuild. It somehow escaped my attention in the README. If I was a little more skilled with my grep-ing I would

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 14:09:56 Tim Bird wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > >>> > >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > >> > >> So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? > > > > Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see mo

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

2008-06-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 00:47:36 Greg Ungerer wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 June 2008 02:54:32 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>> (Maybe I _am_ the only person who still cares about > >>> building on a host without perl. If I wasn't, somebody else would have > >>> acked the pa

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 14:46:55 Tim Bird wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Randy's patch that documents KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG is in Linus' tree since > > April 2006. > > Well, dangit there it is! > > The patch I googled had it going into Documentation/kbuild. It > somehow escaped my attention in the