Re: kernel configuration management tool
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:12:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:58:45AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > guillaume.lopes@etu.univ-paris7.fr writes:
> >
> > > What do you think about this project ?
> >
> > What would be the main difference between your proposal and the
> > current kernel configuration tool? Why not just improve the current
> > tools?
>
> Notice that the nearest match are the kconfig.ml tool i wrote (which can do
> nice diffs between config files and between config files and
> arch/subarch/flavour config snipplet in the debian kernel infrastructure), or
> the older tool Andres wrote in ruby.
indeed.
there are no tools right now.
> I am not sure if the actual kernel config tool stuff, as maks suggested, can
> easily grow up to do what we need. My understanding is that it is written in
> C, and maybe less easily experimentable as the planned ocaml tool, since ocaml
> is a language very well adapted for parsers and graph manipulators, like what
> would be needed here.
the proposal did not explain why a parser is needed!?
why do you want to create a solution for something that is not the
problem?
the trick is to use kbuild
a proper research would look into busybox, {free,open}wrt, klibc and so
they all use kbuild for different purposes.
but *woow* the proposal doesn't even look into linux-2.6
Documentation/kbuild dir
--
maks
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