Hi Tom, On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 16:54, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 08:00:28AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 16:29, Jason Kacines <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Add support to config fragments (.config) located in the /board > > > directory. This will allow only base defconfigs to live in /configs and > > > > Does this mean defconfigs? > > This looks like it would cover defconfig files too, but the initial > motivation is config fragments. See > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/[email protected]/ > for another example. > > > > all fragments to live in their respective device directory in /board/.. > > > > Why do we want this? The patch should have a motivation. > > I've asked a few people to look in to this because we have a lot of > cases today of N _defconfig files where we could really instead have 1 > _defconfig file and N config fragment files. But I do not want them > living in the top level configs directory as that will get even more > unmanageable.
OK I see, thank you. The patch still needs this motivation though. > > What's not in this patch (and not an ask at this point) is figuring out > how buildman could handle "foo_defconfig bar.config" as the required > config target. Indeed. Also, should they appear in the boards.cfg list? Regards, Simon
