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kernel-dev: Updated phrasing for what a "defconfig" file is.

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It was over simplistic.

(From yocto-docs rev: 1c17e3ef607d18c89c3e20d2d44eb5120779cd2c)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark
2018-11-15 14:30:15 -08:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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<title>Creating a&nbsp;&nbsp;<filename>defconfig</filename> File</title>
<para>
A <filename>defconfig</filename> file is simply a
<filename>.config</filename> renamed to "defconfig".
A <filename>defconfig</filename> file in the context of
the Yocto Project is often a <filename>.config</filename>
file that is copied from a build or a
<filename>defconfig</filename> taken from the kernel tree
and moved into recipe space.
You can use a <filename>defconfig</filename> file
to retain a known set of kernel configurations from which the
OpenEmbedded build system can draw to create the final