Re: [RFC] First pass config fragment breakout for linaro kernel

On 03/27/2012 04:48 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:

Is there a recommended way of generating a config fragment for a board?

Currently, the vexpress config is quite large and its origin is unknown to the LT. If I remove the linaro-base.conf entries from our config, we still end up with a config that is 793 lines long.

One way would be "make oldconfig" their starting-point then add it your arch-specific needs.

But we shouldn't be patching configs, but defconfigs.

If you do make savedefconfig, it'll create you a file "defconfig" that just contains the delta from your .config and "all defaults".

If you use that to create patches against the defconfigs, you'll find you're dealing with much shorter deltas that 793 lines.

-Andy