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

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:41:09AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> 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?

Last updated in 2013, and not directly used by Linux, so it's still
effectively a fork, just an attempt to maintain *one* fork instead of
several.