From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764116AbXGYGxT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:53:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759824AbXGYGxM (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:53:12 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:41580 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759648AbXGYGxL (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:53:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:54:26 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Dave Young Cc: kai@germaschewski.name, LKML Subject: Re: make randconfig improvement Message-ID: <20070725065426.GA24093@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:42:38AM +0000, Dave Young wrote: > Hi, > IMHO, the randconfig option make no sense sometimes. For me, My > computer need some must-have config options, like SATA and USB > keyboard config options. I think many other people maybe have similar > problems. > > So, what about improve the randconfig? let's add some basic options , > like oldconfig. We can use randconfig based user-defined options, > randing except the pre-defined ones. > > What's your opinons? kconfig has support for reading a file specified by by $KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG or if not specified for randconfig to read a file named allrandom.config. The syntax of the files are the same as in .config. How far is this from what you try to achieve? Sam