[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] merge_config.sh: merge also buildroot config files

Nasser afshin.nasser at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 20:38:31 UTC 2018


On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 08:35:51PM +0100, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi Nasser,
> 
> > > > as a general command then for different buildroot/kernel defconfig
> > > > files, the last one will extract comments as well which IMHO is not what we
> > > > want.
> 
> > > Agree. Maybe we could try to add "any prefix" pattern: '[A-Z0-9_]\+'
> 
> > > sed -n 's/^\(# \)\{0,1\}\([A-Z0-9_]\+_[a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)[= ].*/\2/p' \
> > > defconfig_file_name
> > I agree. It seems to be a better solution.
> Upstream solution in kernel has been merged [1] and will be part of kernel 4.21
> (kbuild updates for 4.20 has been merged day before).
I see. Seems great.
> Would you like to backport it to buildroot + add necessary applications (setting
> the variable?) or shell I do it?
Sure, I'll do it.
> 
> I also have plans to upgrade our kconfig to 4.19 + review the patches (some of
> them might can be adjusted to be suitable for upstream, so we'd be able to get
> rid of them).
Yes, I would like to do it also.
I think I should begin with the first task and then upgrade our kconfig
to 4.19.
> 
> 
> > Kind regards,
> > Nasser
> 
> Kind regards,
> Petr
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=f6fe19e9d84400e1c9544c1909952c2c7c6a90a2
Kind regards,
Nasser


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