Re: diet-kconfig: a script to trim unneeded kconfigs

From: Chris Li
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 15:40:55 EST


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, it is not so easy, too.
> The good-working reverse selection with dependency checks is a
> feature we've long for in Kconfig, but it hasn't been implemented
> because it could easily introduce a messy dependency loop, or some
> cases are not easily resolvable.

What I describe is a simpler version of that. The key difference is that,
I only work out the dependency base on a distro config file. So there
is only one set of config value to generate a module instead of many
combo in the more general case. I think that will cover 80 percent of
what user want. If you have a known all config file, the reverse selection
is easy resolvable.

>
> Anyway, the development of reverse-selection should involve with Sam
> and other Kbuild maintainer/developers.

Care to CC them? I think most likely you need to touch the current
kconf for "make diet" any way.

Thanks

Chris
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