[RFC PATCH] Kconfig: Enable Kconfig fragments to be used for defconfig

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:57:55AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> Last missing piece is being able to do "select FOO = n", which Stephen
>> is currently working on.
>
> I thought Linus' idea was to use:
>
> KBUILD_KCONFIG=file make allnoconfig

That was more a prototype of the idea; but it's a pretty cumbersome
user interface.  :-)  By changing the makefile to look for kconfig
fragments in the configs directory, the user interface for choosing a
config remains exactly the same.

As for the allnoconfig bit....

> in which case any option which would be presented to the user which hasn't
> been selected by 'file' ends up being set to n.  That means there's no
> need for a special "select FOO=n" construct.

...Linus chimed in on this that he doesn't actually care much.  I
think defconfig with an empty initial config file makes a lot more
sense than allnoconfig so that we're using the default values from the
normal Kconfig files.

> See one of Linus' replies on June 3:
> Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006031317410.8175 at i5.linux-foundation.org>

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