On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 04:50:03PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On 2017-12-11 9:24 AM, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:24:22PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > > It is, but was specifically added so kernels that want to do overrides
like
> > > RHEL could add their own custom configs/debug and configs/generic.
> > >
> > > I am open to name changes but the goal was to use Fedora configs as a
base
> > > and then allow the ability to override through other directories.
> > >
> > > So if you have a proposal to allow that, I am open to it. :-)
> >
> > Why not configs/fedora/{generic,debug} and then we tack on a
> > configs/rhel/{generic,debug} when forking for the next RHEL kernel? Trying
> > to keep them from polluting each other with specific names?
>
> Ok. I don't have any objection to that.
Something I haven't actually looked at... Are those 'generic' and
'debug'
items actually files, or folder full of individual config option files, like
we have in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7's tree? Either way, we could still do
individual files under configs/rhel/generic/CONFIG_FOO that override either
a stack of files or an individual file from Fedora.
That was the plan. Fedora provides individual files and we have the ability
to override it with our changes. In fact, I am hoping to go one further and
provide our changes as feedback to Fedora as suggestions for them to
consider. But that is a side benefit.
I'm quite partial to the one config option per file route we've taken in
RHEL7, because people so infrequently get it wrong, where the old pile of
files approach in RHEL-6, people were frequently adding config options to
what were originally the Fedora configs, iirc, rather than the RHEL override
configs. The one config per file approach is also less prone to requiring
rediffing when someone else's config option gets in before yours. I think
having configs/fedora/* for the base and configs/rhel/* for the RHEL
overrides/updates/additions should be clear enough that it won't get tanked
either, and continues to provide the benefit of collision avoidance.
Yup. Makes sense.
I will put together a patch to share either tomorrow or the next day.
Cheers,
Don