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

[Zoltan Gyarmati]

On 01/31/2017 04:05 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> 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?
Adding an i2c RTC to the RT5350F-OLinuXino board.
 It's already requires patching the dts file to enable the i2c port, but
that change i want to sent to upstream (as that is generally useful),
while adding my type of RTC chip to the device tree is specific to my
config, so i would like to keep it separated. The obvious solution is
to  to maintain my customization patches on the top of the upstream, but
if it's possible i want to avoid that, for which it would be perfect to
keep it in an 'env'.
Thx,

>
> - Felix
>

Zoltan Gyarmati
https://zgyarmati.de

Zoltan Gyarmati
https://zgyarmati.de


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