> On May 11, 2020, at 3:11 PM, Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org> wrote: > > [CAUTION - EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT reply, click links, or open attachments > unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. > > Hi, > > On 11/05/2020 15:07, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 11.05.2020 15:57, Julien Grall wrote: >>> >>> I have never heard of ./.config before. So what are you referring to? >> I'm referring to this line in ./Config.mk: >> -include $(XEN_ROOT)/.config > > Great another undocumented way to do things...
Oh, is that not documented? It’s quite venerable at this point — if it’s not documented that should change. (Although I guess there’s an argument that everything which would be included there should be added to either KConfig or configure.) I don’t think I would have thought to add XEN_CONFIG_EXPERT=y to .config to prevent the issue Julien is seeing. That maybe part of the reason why this doesn’t bother you as much as it does him. From a UI perspective, I think that’s a poor UI — enabling CONFIG_EXPERT from the menuconfig is more discoverable and more in line with what people expect. -George
