On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Don Zickus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 05:34:18AM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Laura Abbott <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 11/10/2017 11:48 AM, Don Zickus wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Laura, >> >> >> >> As per our conversation, here is my pull request for the config changes: >> >> https://pagure.io/fedora-kernel-dzickus.git rh_sync >> >> >> >> >> >> As part of an effort to foster better cross collaboration with internal >> >> Red >> >> Hat kernels, align the configs layout to match that kernel. This will >> >> allow >> >> Red Hat engineers to provide easier guidance on how to set various config >> >> options. >> >> >> >> In addition, the scripts that process the config options will migrate to >> >> the >> >> configs/ directory too. Future config workflows will stage all work in >> >> the >> >> configs/ area. >> >> >> >> A simple diff between the kernels will easily expose which config options >> >> are different. Reading the comments in the file provides guidance to >> >> Fedora >> >> to determine if that kernel should make a similar change or not. While >> >> the >> >> RH kernel stays internal, requested changes will be posted publicly for >> >> review with said reason. >> >> >> >> Rename debugconfig -> configs/base-debug >> >> Rename baseconfig -> configs/base-generic >> >> Any chance we could drop the base- in those names and just have >> configs/debug/ >> configs/generic >> >> The base- is somewhat superfluous and is annoying for auto complete ;-) > > It is, but was specifically added so kernels that want to do overrides like > RHEL could add their own custom configs/debug and configs/generic. > > I am open to name changes but the goal was to use Fedora configs as a base > and then allow the ability to override through other directories.
I don't see how 's/base-//' would stop the ability for overrides? Do you have an explicit example of how you see that working? > So if you have a proposal to allow that, I am open to it. :-) _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
