[yocto] Fwd: Kernel features

[Ilya Dmitrichenko]

On 8 September 2014 13:14, Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at windriver.com> wrote:

> Ah, but we do verify it. There's a check config task, that used to
> be more visible, I got complaints and we hid it. I have a 1.7 task
> to make it more visible again :)

I have ran kernel_configcheck and it didn't appear to indicate anything.

>> Warning: The Kconfig option CONFIG_SND_DAVINCI_SOC_MCASP that you have
>> specified depends on CONFIG_SND_DAVINCI_SOC. I will enable
>> CONFIG_SND_DAVINCI_SOC as a module for you.
>
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> This one you can't do without parsing and evaluating all the Kconfigs,
> which is expensive, and hard to do. We can do something basic by looking
> at only the direct options within a particular Kconfig, since they are
> immediately available.

I see. Have anyone though of making Kconfig itself to dump out deps
tree in JSON or other machine-readable format?

> But we do detect a whole set of other errors already, and for the most
> part, they lead pretty quickly to the issue.

Bruce, that's great to hear!