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docs/manual: do not instruct doctoring the saved defconfig

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Doctoring a defconfig is tedious, and it is not easy to update a
defconfig, as it requires manual copy-pasting, adding comments and so
on...

Instead, just require defconfigs to be generated with 'savedefconfig'.
Any details can/must be provided in the commit log.

Reported-by: Edgar Bonet <bonet@grenoble.cnrs.fr>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
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2024-09-21 18:32:58 +02:00
committed by Arnout Vandecappelle
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@@ -22,11 +22,7 @@ selections are highly application-specific.
Once you have a known working configuration, run +make
savedefconfig+. This will generate a minimal +defconfig+ file at the
root of the Buildroot source tree. Move this file into the +configs/+
directory, and rename it +<boardname>_defconfig+. If the configuration
is a bit more complicated, it is nice to manually reformat it and
separate it into sections, with a comment before each section. Typical
sections are _Architecture_, _Toolchain options_ (typically just linux
headers version), _Firmware_, _Bootloader_, _Kernel_, and _Filesystem_.
directory, and rename it +<boardname>_defconfig+.
Always use fixed versions or commit hashes for the different
components, not the "latest" version. For example, set