Re: kconfig: Locate files relative to $srctree

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 02:56:22AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> >  const char *conf_confnames[] = {
> >  	".config",
> >  	"/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config",
> >  	"/etc/kernel-config",
> >  	"/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE",
> > -	conf_defname,
> > +	"arch/$ARCH/defconfig",			/* index DEFNAME */
> > +	"$" SRCTREE "/arch/$ARCH/defconfig",	/* index DEFALTNAME */
> >  	NULL,
> >  };
> 
> This is not good. At some point I maybe want to make these configurable.
> I changed the patch to always use zconf_fopen(), which will try the 
> alternative prefix for relative paths.
> I couldn't test this very much as you forgot the kbuild script. :)
> Anyway, below is an alternative version.

One thing that does slightly annoy me with the new config tools is the
handling of the default configuration when you're cross-building.  In
this circumstance, looking for the running kernel configuration seems
wrong; it definitely isn't going to be the configuration you want to
start from.

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