On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 5:39 AM Jupiter <jupiter....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Bruce, > > Thanks for your response. > > > You can't suppress the kernel's config step, it is always going to > > run. You can't just copy over .config and have the kernel build. > > If the OE build kernel config step can be disabled to compile kernel > using customer defconfig, that will make users life much easier to > disable unwanted kernel drivers and features.
This has nothing to do with OE, that's what the kernel would do no matter how you build it. > > The customer defconfig can be certainly generated from bitbake -c > menuconfig, but honestly, the kernel configure selection is not easier > to understand, we have to use defconfig to disable unwanted the > configures and tested it, inadvertently disable some configures could > cause kernel panic regardless if the OE build system config step is > running or not. > There's a reason why kernel-yocto (and other frameworks) provide things like configuration fragments, kernel types, etc, This is a well explored topic. Check out my (and others) presentations about this throughout the years of yocto summits, etc. They can all be found online in various formats. > I have searched the internet, it is not just me, there are many others > who requested to run customer defconfig without OE build kernel config > step. It can already do that, just as I described in my previous response. The defconfig is copied in, and then the kernel *will* run its configuration process over it, not OE's, the kernel. > > Are you a contributor in the OE dev team? Are there any reasons why > the OE dev team won't consider this feature? See above, Bruce > > Thank you very much. > > Kind regards, > > jupiter -- - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II
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