[KJ] [PATCH] Fix for some typos in Documentation/makefiles.txt
Sam Ravnborg
sam at ravnborg.org
Wed Sep 20 16:41:50 PDT 2006
> For automated kernel testing when we wish to customize a config, such as
> iterating through memory models, tuning settings, experimental features,
> etc. we can do this through simple substitutions.
>
> However, this doesn't handle dependencies, such as if choice of a given
> memory model should alter other config settings.
>
> Do you know of a tool or technique which can be used from the
> commandline to alter an arbitrary symbol's value in a given .config
> file, and cascade the change to any dependent symbols, using a given
> kernel Kconfig?
>
> From what I have gathered, there is no such thing that does exactly
> this; do you know if this is true?
Unfortunately correct.
It has been requested several times but noone has come up with
neither a good interface to kconfig to do it, nor a good implmentation
of such thing.
For someone that understands the kconfig datastructures it should be
doable but I at least have failed to get a good grip on it so far.
And Roman Zippel - the kconfig maintainer - has been busy with other stuff
lately and haven't come up with something useful either.
Sam
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