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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC 00/29] Incomplete Kconfig conversion


  • To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:47:58 -0500
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 23:48:21 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>

On 10/5/15 5:03 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> This is very incomplete and is only posted in hopes of getting some feedback
> if this conversion is welcome by the community. There are a few different
> ways I can go from here.
> 
> * convert all of include/$(ARCH)/config.h
> * move this to the top level and convert all of configs/
> * due both of the above
> 
> I'd like to break this series up as small as possible and land parts in the
> tree that I can land. At this point the first 4 patches are too large and
> need culling down to only what's necessary. But my goal was to make it as
> obvious as possible where the original code came from and how it was
> transformed over time.
> 
> Ultimately my goal is to allow for more parts of the hypervisor to be turned
> off at compile time and potentially make it easier to include more
> experimental features by others which can be turned off by default. Also to
> provide the one true location for all possible knobs in the source code.

I forgot to mention that you can grab this whole series from:

https://github.com/cardoe/xen/tree/kconfig_rfc

For anyone interested in building it but not going through the git am
process for 29 patches.

-- 
Doug Goldstein

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