Updating env/kernel-config after rebasing/kernel version bump

[Robert Marko]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 21:21, Philip Prindeville
<philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
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> > On Dec 28, 2022, at 1:14 PM, Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 01:01, Philip Prindeville
> > <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
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> >>> On Dec 27, 2022, at 4:50 PM, Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 00:48, Philip Prindeville
> >>> <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
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> >>>> Hi,
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> >>>> I originally set up my env/kernel-config a long time ago (like 2018) by hand, and since then the kernel has gone through several bumps.  How do I easily refresh it to pick up new stuff from target/linux/x86/64/config-${KVER} (where KVER=5.15 currently)?  Is there a handy script or make target to do this?
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> >>> There is make kernel_menuconfig that will essentially give you the
> >>> kernel menuconfig and refresh the config after saving.
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> >> Right, but what does that involve?  Will it pick up new symbols from the new kernel target?  If there's a new default in 5.15 that wasn't in 5.10, how does it find its way into my config?
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> >> I tried diffing target/linux/x86/64/config-5.15 and env/kernel-config and there's a whole lot of changes.
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> >> Or is env/kernel-config the delta from the defaults for any given kernel version in config-${KVER}?
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> > I have to admit that I have not used the env script so far, so I dont
> > know how it works.
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> > Regards,
> > Robert
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> I'd like to see something like scripts/diffconfig.sh done for the kernel-config ...
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> How are the files in target/linux/ combined to generate default state in the absence of kernel-config, anyway?

Unfortunately, I am not familiar with this, have you try asking on the
IRC, somebody ought to know.

Regards,
Robert
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> Thanks
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> >>> Regards,
> >>> Robert
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> >>>> Thanks,
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> >>>> -Philip
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