On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Gaurav Minocha
<gaurav.minocha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Rob Herring <robh...@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Frank Rowand <frowand.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From: Frank Rowand <frank.row...@am.sony.com>
>>>
>>> Determining which kernel config options need to be enabled for a
>>> given devicetree can be a painful process. Create a new tool to
>>> find the drivers that may match a devicetree node compatible,
>>> find the kernel config options that enable the driver, and
>>> optionally report whether the kernel config option is enabled.
>>
>> I would find this more useful to output a config fragment with all the
>> options enabled. The hard part there is enabling the options a given
>> option is dependent on which I don't think kbuild takes care of.
>
> Do you mean to generate something like .config? If yes, then IMO it would
> not be a correct configuration file.
A fragment to be appended to your current .config.
After that, an additional run of "make oldconfig" should (hopefully) bring
everything into good shape.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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