Re: [PATCH 0/7] Resurrect backports Integration Mode

Hi Luis,

On 2021-11-24 05:57, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 09:54:58PM -0800, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
>> The backports integration mode[0] seems to have suffered some bitrot 
>> and
>> doesn't currently work. Integration mode can be convenient in certain
>> use cases and build flows though, so this patch set tries to fixup the
>> integration mode.
>> 
>> These changes were developed and tested for backporting a v5.10
>> backports + linux branch to a v4.19 kernel. v5.15-rc6 backports + 
>> linux
>> was successfully built against v4.19.
>> 
>> 0: 
>> https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/integration
> 
> Good stuff, looks good, just one thing the $FOO --> $(FOO) thing,
> does that assume/require a bump in kconfig used in backports, ie,
> if not using integration does that still work? If so then cool,
> otherwise an upgrade to kconfig would be needed, and if that is
> going to be done, I have a better solution to bump kconfig soon.

I just tried the package mode, and no it doesn't work. The embedded 
kconfig doesn't like "$()".

In that case I'll wait for your changes and resubmit once they've been 
merged.

> I'll be making kconfig code stand alone tree soon which projects
> which want to embrace it can use it as a git subtree (note this
> is different and better than a git sub module). Then updates
> can just be done with something like:
> 
>   make refresh-kconfig
> 
> And that would just get the latest kconfig and trigger a merge commit
> locally.

Cool. It seems kconfig is becoming somewhat of a standard for build time 
configuration (backports, u-boot, buildroot, etc.), so it makes sense to 
live as a standalone repo.

Thanks.

-- 
thomas
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