[RFC PATCH 1/3] scripts: kconfig: Add config fragment support in board/../

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 16:54, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 08:00:28AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 16:29, Jason Kacines <j-kacines at ti.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Add support to config fragments (.config) located in the /board
> > > directory. This will allow only base defconfigs to live in /configs and
> >
> > Does this mean defconfigs?
>
> This looks like it would cover defconfig files too, but the initial
> motivation is config fragments.  See
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20230606071850.270001-5-clamor95@gmail.com/
> for another example.
>
> > > all fragments to live in their respective device directory in /board/..
> >
> > Why do we want this? The patch should have a motivation.
>
> I've asked a few people to look in to this because we have a lot of
> cases today of N _defconfig files where we could really instead have 1
> _defconfig file and N config fragment files.  But I do not want them
> living in the top level configs directory as that will get even more
> unmanageable.

OK I see, thank you. The patch still needs this motivation though.

>
> What's not in this patch (and not an ask at this point) is figuring out
> how buildman could handle "foo_defconfig bar.config" as the required
> config target.

Indeed. Also, should they appear in the boards.cfg list?

Regards,
Simon