[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 1/6] classes/kernel-check: add a class to check kernel config options

[Paul Eggleton]

On Mon, 09 May 2016 07:59:43 Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Paul Eggleton <
> paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Some user-space software has specific requirements about the kernel
> > configuration options selected. This class allows a recipe to explicitly
> > state the kernel configuration options it needs (through a
> > REQUIRED_KERNEL_OPTIONS variable). This is a space separated list, where
> > 
> > each item is one of:
> >   (a) an option name (e.g. CONFIG_FHANDLE, in which case CONFIG_FHANDLE
> >   
> >       must be set to y or m to match)
> >   
> >   (b) optionname=value (e.g. CONFIG_FHANDLE=y, in which case
> >   
> >       CONFIG_FHANDLE must be set to y). If the specified value is n,
> >       it will also match if the option is not present.
> >   
> >   (c) optionname1|optionname2|... (e.g.
> >   
> >       CONFIG_EXT2_FS|CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23, meaning that either
> >       CONFIG_EXT2_FS or CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23 must be set to y or
> >       m to match).
> 
> This duplicates code that is already in the kconf_check routines, which
> I've already made generic (and added dependency information) for the 2.2
> release ... so call me confused that I've never heard about this until now 
> :(

I guess I didn't look hard enough, I'll have to take a look at that. This is 
why the series is RFC (and I included you on CC ;)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre