Kconfig fragment based config managment
Covers trying to upstream the kconfig changes needed in order to provide kconfig frament based config management. Some parts already have proof of concept, but other parts, such as full dependency resolution will need to be implemented from scratch.
After my presentation and discussions at Linux Plumbers, the required functional changes to make Kconfig fragments work is just too much work for not enough payoff. A smaller set of config fragment tooling would provide similar benefits at much reduced cost. Working with the yocto project folks, I'm trying to get the best practices and tooling common to a number of distros submitted upstream so everyone can share the common infrastructure.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- John Stultz
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- John Stultz
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for devtrack
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- John Stultz
- Completed by
- John Stultz
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
This has been implemented and merged into upstream kernels; however, not picked up by major distros.
Work Items
Work items for 11.07:
[jstultz] Research dependency resolution on select (determined to be too complex): DONE
Work items for 11.08:
[jstultz] Research alternative config fragment approach: DONE
[jstultz] Develop presentation for Linux Plumbers BOF: DONE
Work items for 11.09:
[jstultz] Present at Linux Plumbers BOF: DONE
[jstultz] Implement config fragment tooling for upstream: DONE
[jstultz] Submit config fragment tooling upstream: DONE
Work items for 11.10:
[jstultz] Implement changes per feedback from posting to lkml: DONE
[jstultz] Resubmit config fragment tooling upstream: DONE
[jstultz] Yet again, resubmit config fragment tooling upstream: DONE
Work items for 11.11:
[jstultz] Get config fragment tooling merged in -mm: DONE
[jstultz] Fixed or queued fixes related to feedback/bugreports on patch in -mm: DONE
[jstultz] akpm has sent the patches to kbuild maintainer, so far they haven't been picked up (Jan 10): DONE
[jstultz] Get config fragment tooling merged upstream (Just landed for 3.3-rc1, Jan 17): DONE
Work items for 12.02:
[jstultz] Present at connect on how to use merge_config.sh: DONE
Work items for 12.03:
[jstultz] First shot at breaking out config fragments for linaro tree: DONE
[jstultz] Sent first revision to linaro-dev for review: DONE
Work items for 12.04:
[jstultz] Get fragments integrated with linaro tree: DONE
Work items for backlog:
[jstultz] Get build systems to utilize the config fragments: TODO
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
