[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:05:19PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart at infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> > Regarding tooling, Andy and I have documented our process and shared our
>> > tooling which has evolved to try and prevent human error. I believe DRM
>> > has something even more evolved.
>
>> > https://github.com/dvhart/pdx86-tools
>
>> Hm, the gen-config scrips looks like a really neat idea. Atm we
>> manually maintain some configs for all the drm drivers, but this is
>> much better I think. Next step up would be to double-check that make
>
> Yes, I've got a script like that as well (mine's a *tiny* bit less
> sophisticated) - it's super handy if you frequently add new drivers.
>
>> Bit of googling and fooling around says make CONFIG_FOO=y olddefconfig
>> seems to do this, including enabling (all?) dependencies you need.
>
> That only works for dependencies that are selected, if there's a config
> option that stops CONFIG_FOO being seen by the user (eg, having MFD_FOO
> preventing SUBSYSTEM_FOO being enabled) then it'll just get silently
> ignored.

I guess I fumbled something with my testing, this does indeed not work
like I hoped :-/
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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