Re: mainlining min-configs...

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:18:30AM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > You need both, and ideally constantly done by the same person against 
> > Linus' tree, -next and -mm.
> > 
> > Where to get your minimal configs from at the start is just a small 
> > thing at the beginning - don't underestimate the required manual work 
> > that will have to be done each week.
> 
> This is probably why I haven't signed up for this myself previously.
> I'd be interested in finding out the rate at which defconfigs
> bitrot in mainline.  My experience is that usually a 'make oldconfig'
> will produce something usable.  But maybe that wouldn't be as
> effective with a minconfig?
>...

Someone has to run the 'make oldconfig' for all configs...

And no, you cannot get that completely automated.

>  -- Tim

cu
Adrian

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