From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Cristina Moraru <cristina.moraru09@gmail.com>,
ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] is Kconfig a bit hard sometimes?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:14:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzgumwC-HqDpsj-OEVoQdhcnRo9Fh2Kg7SMPL6+wP4ctg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6Wd9WWCyRzO=TjaTiPNruSwt24G3BD2qTuUue8B3kRX5g@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The *easier* thing to do for now was to just map a loaded module to a
> kconfig symbol, and she proposed fairly simple patches to do this.
Well, localmodconfig does that today already.
And as mentioned, this is *not* even primarily about devices.
Devices are actually the easy case. Not only are they generally fairly
easy to enumerate (ie lsusb etc), they are things that people are at
least more or less aware of.
The config options that don't enable drivers, but enable particular
behavior - *those* are actually the nastiest ones.
And you don't see those in module names (well, you obviously sometimes
do, since the module might be what implements the behavior, but quite
often it's a built-in or just a setting for a module)
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-28 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-27 13:58 Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-06-27 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-27 18:44 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-27 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-27 20:53 ` Kees Cook
2017-06-27 21:16 ` Olof Johansson
2017-06-27 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-27 23:10 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2017-06-28 0:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-28 0:14 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-06-28 0:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-28 3:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
[not found] ` <CAFhKne-o0S8fMo_XD_aUk2Rf7VbDhgO+PT_bjnM-9WpKfnWBvw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAFhKne8FE=17wNdp=Svf2Z2tADok6htfYqTABEiZUrCOyeMaYg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-28 13:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-06-28 17:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-06-29 10:02 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-06-28 0:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-29 10:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-06-28 12:58 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-06-30 17:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-06-30 17:52 ` Darren Hart
2017-06-30 17:58 ` Darren Hart
2017-07-01 17:24 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-06-27 20:41 ` Kees Cook
2017-07-06 14:40 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-06 14:41 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: add a silent option to conf_write() Dan Carpenter
2017-07-06 15:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-07-06 14:42 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: new command line kernel configuration tool Dan Carpenter
2017-07-07 5:55 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-07-07 9:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-09 3:56 ` Linus Walleij
2017-07-09 8:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-07-09 17:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-07-09 19:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-07-09 17:32 ` Frank Rowand
2017-07-10 9:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-07-10 11:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-06 16:41 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] is Kconfig a bit hard sometimes? Linus Torvalds
2017-07-06 17:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-07-07 11:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-10 17:15 ` Luck, Tony
2017-07-10 17:33 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-07-10 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-07-10 19:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-07-11 6:21 ` Valentin Rothberg
2017-07-06 21:19 ` Laurent Pinchart
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