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    kconfig: extend output of 'listnewconfig' · 17baab68
    Don Zickus authored
    We at Red Hat/Fedora have generally tried to have a per file breakdown of
    every config option we set.  This makes it easy for us to add new options
    when they are exposed and keep a changelog of why they were set.
    
    A Fedora example is here:
      https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/kernel.git/tree/configs/fedora/generic
    
    
    
    Using various merge scripts, we build up a config file and run it through
    'make listnewconfig' and 'make oldnoconfig'.   The idea is to print out new
    config options that haven't been manually set and use the default until
    a patch is posted to set it properly.
    
    To speed things up, it would be nice to make it easier to generate a
    patch to post the default setting.  The output of 'make listnewconfig'
    has two issues that limit us:
    
    - it doesn't provide the default value
    - it doesn't provide the new 'choice' options that get flagged in
      'oldconfig'
    
    This patch extends 'listnewconfig' to address the above two issues.
    
    This allows us to run a script
    
    make listnewconfig | rhconfig-tool -o patches; git send-email patches/
    
    The output of 'make listnewconfig':
    
    CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_IPT
    CONFIG_IPVLAN
    CONFIG_ICE
    CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NI
    CONFIG_IEEE802154_MCR20A
    CONFIG_IR_IMON_DECODER
    CONFIG_IR_IMON_RAW
    
    The new output of 'make listnewconfig':
    
    CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ=n
    CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO=n
    CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_IPT=n
    CONFIG_IPVLAN=n
    CONFIG_ICE=n
    CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_NI=y
    CONFIG_IEEE802154_MCR20A=n
    CONFIG_IR_IMON_DECODER=n
    CONFIG_IR_IMON_RAW=n
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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