[LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] Bounty: simplify extracting/restoring kernel .config

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2017-01-31 16:04, Zoltan Gyarmati wrote:
> On 01/31/2017 10:19 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2017-01-29 22:37, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I’m working on a project where I need to be able to force certain
>>> kernel configuration parameters from a script, to automate building
>>> tailored kernels for performance testing, certification, etc.
>>>
>>> I love the way that I can use “scripts/diffconfig.sh” to save the
>>> deltas into a file… update the cloning/checkout of master over time,
>>> yet retain my saved overrides by doing a “cp ../my.config .config ;
>>> make defconfig oldconfig” and always end up with a known/good
>>> configuration.
>>>
>>> Alas, I can’t do the same for the target kernel in a scripted way.
>>>
>>> I’d like to put out a bounty for doing so.  If you’re interested,
>>> contact me via email to discuss the deliverable and the terms of
>>> payment.
>>>
>>> Ideally, this would be of broad enough applicability that I’d want to
>>> upstream this back to OpenWRT for everyone, so keep that in mind as
>>> well.
>> This is already implemented. You can put any kernel configuration
>> overrides into env/kernel-config.
>> Generating those is fairly easy too, you can use this command:
>> make kernel_menuconfig CONFIG_TARGET=env
>> You can also put a full kernel config in that file instead of a delta.
>> Running make kernel_oldconfig CONFIG_TARGET=env afterwards will reduce
>> that full config to a delta relative to the defaults that LEDE uses.
> 
> Dear Felix & All,
> 
> might be slightly off-topic, but: Is there any similar mechanism to
> customize/override not only the kernel config but also the device tree file?
Not really. What's your use case for this?

- Felix