Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 14:46:55 Tim Bird wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Randy's patch that documents KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG is in Linus' tree since > > April 2006. > > Well, dangit there it is! > > The patch I googled had it going into Documentation/kbuild. It > somehow escaped my attention in the

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 14:09:56 Tim Bird wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > >>> > >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > >> > >> So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? > > > > Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see mo

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Bird
Adrian Bunk wrote: > Randy's patch that documents KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG is in Linus' tree since > April 2006. Well, dangit there it is! The patch I googled had it going into Documentation/kbuild. It somehow escaped my attention in the README. If I was a little more skilled with my grep-ing I would

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:36:39PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > > >>> > > >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > > >> So you're renaming KCONFI

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > >>> > >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > >> So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? > > > > Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > >>> > >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > >> So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? > > > > Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Bird
Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>> When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: >>> >>> make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig >> So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? > > Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see more use. Only very few > people know the KCONFIG_ALL*CONFIG= trick. I

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-11 Thread Christian MICHON
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Tim Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chance of getting your minimal configs from Firmware Linux mainlined? > > Does anyone else think this would be valuable? If not in mainline, it > would be nice to collect them somewhere, to compare what options different >

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > > > When I get my kconfig patchset polished you will be able to do: > > > > make K=my_mini_config allnoconfig > > So you're renaming KCONFIG_ALLNOCONFIG then? Somehow yes. The K= notation I hope will see more use. Only very few people know the KCONFIG_ALL*CONFIG= trick. > > > Thus selecting

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 13:18:30 Tim Bird wrote: > bitrot in mainline. My experience is that usually a 'make oldconfig' > will produce something usable. But maybe that wouldn't be as > effective with a minconfig? I'm probably going to have to start breaking down and patching the kconfig infrast

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 13:30:04 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:18:30AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >... > > > > > You need both, and ideally constantly done by the same person against > > > Linus' tree, -next and -mm. > > > > > > Where to get your minimal confi

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 13:51:23 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:30:04PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:18:30AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >... > > > > > > > You need both, and ideally constantly done by the same person against > >

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 03:36:10 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:37:29PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Friday 06 June 2008 18:47:47 Tim Bird wrote: > > >> At a minimum, it would be nice to have a few nice examples > > >> of really, really small configs for t

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 09 June 2008 20:37:29 Tim Bird wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Friday 06 June 2008 18:47:47 Tim Bird wrote: > >> At a minimum, it would be nice to have a few nice examples > >> of really, really small configs for things like qemus for different > >> architectures (just to give embedded

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:51:23PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:30:04PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:18:30AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >... > > > > You need both, and ideally constantly done by the same person against

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:30:04PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:18:30AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >... > > > You need both, and ideally constantly done by the same person against > > > Linus' tree, -next and -mm. > > > > > > Where to get your minima

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:18:30AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > You need both, and ideally constantly done by the same person against > > Linus' tree, -next and -mm. > > > > Where to get your minimal configs from at the start is just a small > > thing at the beginning - d

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Tim Bird
Adrian Bunk wrote: > But if you want to discover size change with minimal configs early you > anyway have to both: > - constantly keep your configs in shape so that they are both minimal > for some set of hardware support and features and > - investigate for any size changes what caused them >

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:37:29PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Friday 06 June 2008 18:47:47 Tim Bird wrote: > >> At a minimum, it would be nice to have a few nice examples > >> of really, really small configs for things like qemus for different > >> architectures (just to giv

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Mundt
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:14:36PM +1000, Ben Nizette wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 18:37 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > > Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Friday 06 June 2008 18:47:47 Tim Bird wrote: > > >> At a minimum, it would be nice to have a few nice examples > > >> of really, really small configs for

Re: mainlining min-configs...

2008-06-09 Thread Ben Nizette
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 18:37 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Friday 06 June 2008 18:47:47 Tim Bird wrote: > >> At a minimum, it would be nice to have a few nice examples > >> of really, really small configs for things like qemus for different > >> architectures (just to give embe