Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'

[Ingo Molnar]

* Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 28.10.2011 09:54, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > > ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does.
> > > 
> > > This fits in the generic "I have a .config and I want to enable an 
> > > additional option" functionality:
> > > 
> > > make oldconfig CONFIG_KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE=y
> > > 
> > > Don't we already have that support? I seem to remember it flying 
> > > by. Or was it just a proposal that never got implemented?
> > 
> > Well, it would be nice to have something (much) shorter and more 
> > obvious, as we really expect to use this frequently.
> > 
> > Maybe:
> > 
> >   make oldconfig kvm
> 
> Maybe something more obvious?:
> make modconfig kvm
> or
> make modconfig=kvm

Well, i run distinctly non-modular kernels so modconfig would not be 
particularly good. Also, many of the features enabled are non-modular 
core kernel features to begin with.

But i don't particularly care about how it's named, as long as 
there's a sane and obvious shortcut for it.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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