[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] tools/Makefile: Fix Many Many problems and inconsistencies

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Tue Aug 2 08:41:09 UTC 2016


On 01/08/2016 at 22:02:33 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote :
> A higher-level item that I think would make a good topic: extracting
> Kconfig into a library usable outside the kernel.  Several other
> projects use a copied and hacked-up version of Kconfig.  I'd love to see
> it more widely used as a build-time configuration system for more
> projects, but not by forking it out of the kernel each time.  I've heard
> kbuild/kconfig maintainers mention that they're interested in seeing
> this done, but don't have the bandwidth to do it.
> 
> The thing that makes this a topic, rather than just a thing someone
> needs to just do and submit a patch for, is determining the necessary
> requirements from both the kernel and other projects, so that Kconfig
> doesn't depend on the kernel but that the kernel build system doesn't
> get any more complex to support that.

Well, what about http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/kconfig-frontends
by the Kconfig maintainer?


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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
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