[ACTIVITY] (John Stultz) Aug 22th-26th

[John Stultz]

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 11:01 -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 05:06:07PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> > * Implemented the proposed config tooling for config fragments, as
> > discussed in my Kconfig talk.
> 
> Nice job. Question for you: is this significant enough work that you
> think it will take months of review and discussion upstream? And is it
> particularly useful for other archictures than ARM?

Hopefully not. I've scaled back what I'm proposing and have some initial
patches that provide the functionality I'd like to see. Instead of using
Kconfig fragments to kill off defconfig, I'm looking to improve tooling
around regular config fragments, so we can get the various
distro-building tools using similar best practices based on upstreamed
functionality (instead of every distro creating their own config
management tools).

The Kconfig replaces defconfig item will still be out there to discuss,
but hopefully it will become less of an issue as the kernel unification
work progresses. 

thanks
-john