From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764975AbXGYHbJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:31:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752287AbXGYHa5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:30:57 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.231]:10745 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752599AbXGYHa4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:30:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=g3Z1F2AbJ+3BBR9me6M5DCy2t0BDzDFYWBwDUfXP0GpoHCo1uZQUIaw+njV7V/te8WOjxmdpusizJ2kN8UjMwqrNN5lBCjwvR1ikZKzJyFy7wB2hqn5P3lzAI05HhdhpLUoIWpmnRD0zobgocQXw2wC7kUXqLYWfaf2OeAJMnqs= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:30:55 +0000 From: "Dave Young" To: "Sam Ravnborg" Subject: Re: make randconfig improvement Cc: kai@germaschewski.name, LKML In-Reply-To: <20070725065426.GA24093@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070725065426.GA24093@uranus.ravnborg.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >On 7/25/07, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > 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 > Yes, it does achieve my goal, thanks. sorry for this noise.