[gentoo-kernel] Notice of addition of "4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch" ("Add Gentoo Linux support config settings and defaults.") to genpatches.

[gentoo-kernel] Notice of addition of "4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch" ("Add Gentoo Linux support config settings and defaults.") to genpatches.

[Tom Wijsman]

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Hello



If you maintain kernels based on genpatches for a non Gentoo Linux
audience and do not want a Gentoo Linux menu or Gentoo Linux defaults
present on those particular kernels; then I want to make you aware that
you need to ensure that you drop 4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch from
the patch set after extraction.

This patch has been, in first instance, introduced to deal with one of
the large annoyances our users have to deal with; which is the need
for the user to enable DEVTMPFS, we now enable this by default. As a
result, our users will no longer experience this problem and a lot of
documentation that previously recommended this can be simplified.

Besides that, we also try to provide options that ease changing a lot
of CONFIG variables at once; for instance, if an user wants systemd
support in the kernel the user can now toggle just one option instead
of searching all the options one after another. This latter addition is
an experiment, but I believe that it will be seen as useful...

This will be present in the next releases (3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.10+).

If you experience inconvenience, let me know so I can help.

Thank you for your understanding.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

E-mail address  : TomWij@gentoo.org
GPG Public Key  : 6D34E57D
GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2  ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D

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Re: [gentoo-kernel] Notice of addition of "4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch" ("Add Gentoo Linux support config settings and defaults.") to genpatches.

[Justin]

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On 15/08/13 19:28, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 
> 
> If you maintain kernels based on genpatches for a non Gentoo Linux
> audience and do not want a Gentoo Linux menu or Gentoo Linux defaults
> present on those particular kernels; then I want to make you aware that
> you need to ensure that you drop 4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch from
> the patch set after extraction.
> 

Hi,

How about adding this patch to an extra tarball so that we can simply
switch it of be not setting it in K_WANT_GENPATCHES?

Justin


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Re: [gentoo-kernel] Notice of addition of "4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch" ("Add Gentoo Linux support config settings and defaults.") to genpatches.

[Tom Wijsman]

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On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:00:19 +0200
Justin <jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 15/08/13 19:28, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > If you maintain kernels based on genpatches for a non Gentoo Linux
> > audience and do not want a Gentoo Linux menu or Gentoo Linux
> > defaults present on those particular kernels; then I want to make
> > you aware that you need to ensure that you drop
> > 4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch from the patch set after
> > extraction.
> > 
> 
> How about adding this patch to an extra tarball so that we can simply
> switch it of be not setting it in K_WANT_GENPATCHES?

This complicates the eclass, genpatches scripts and all in tree ebuilds
for a single patch in a single tarball; why not just exclude it if you
explicitly don't want it? It's not much more than your proposal; so,
excluding the patch seems like a much more simpler approach.

Alternatively, people can add a patch that patches away ./Kconfig:11.

This is also meant to be opt-out and not opt-in; as in the end, this
change causes documentation changes and thus must be present in any
kernel on Gentoo Linux, otherwise we are introducing inconsistency.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

E-mail address  : TomWij@gentoo.org
GPG Public Key  : 6D34E57D
GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2  ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D

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