dead code in build.sh?

Matt Dew matt at osource.org
Thu Sep 23 09:08:03 PDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The kernel also has a person who exclusively maintains Kconfig. We're
>> not that lucky.
>
> I'd like to add a patch (among others) to build.sh to allow the user
> to specify the set of modules they want to build. I then want to allow
> the user to specify the list in a file, perhaps a ".modlist" file
> which, perhaps, the script could look for by default (to cut down on
> the number of cmdline arguments the user needs to supply). Eventually
> it would be nice if that file could be generated by a Kconfig-like
> front-end. The kernel's Kconfig has a sort-of dependency system
> whereby you can't ask to build a USB modem (for example) if the USB
> system isn't enabled "higher up" in the configuration.
>
> I'd be happy to do the work and maintain it if it gets merged (i.e. if
> there's interest).
>


You have my vote.


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