Recursively disabling CONFIG dependencies on linux kernel builds
For anyone that might stumble upon this, Kconfiglib now lives at https://github.com/ulfalizer/Kconfiglib and has been polished and updated for the latest Kconfig version as of writing (Linux 3.7.0-rc8). The installation has also been greatly simplified.
Update:
Kconfiglib has been updated for Linux v4.0-rc3 now, and the test suite passes in obsessive mode. A new option allnoconfig_y option (for leaving certain symbols as y during make allnoconfig) was added that it barfed on.
Sorry for letting Kconfiglib bitrot for a while! :/
Feel free to post any Kconfig-related questions (not necessarily related to Kconfiglib) you might have and link them here by the way (or notify me in some other way). Kconfig has a lot of obscure corners.
It looks like Kconfiglib, by Ulf Magnusson, will let you grok the configuration dependencies in Python and modify configurations settings: http://lwn.net/Articles/426013 -- beyond that, I've found discussion of the issue but no resolution.
Some helpful items for Kconfiglib: