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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Kconfig-module.md b/docs/markdown/Kconfig-module.md index b13f7ec..c361b5b 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Kconfig-module.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Kconfig-module.md @@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ This function loads a kconfig output file and returns a dictionary object. file. Therefore, true boolean values will be represented as the string "y" and integer values will have to be converted with `.to_int()`. +Kconfig frontends usually have ".config" as the default name for the +configuration file. However, placing the configuration file in the source +directory limits the user to one configuration per source directory. +In order to allow separate configurations for each build directory, as is +the Meson standard, `meson.build` should not hardcode ".config" as the +argument to `kconfig.load()`, and should instead make the argument to +`kconfig.load()` a [project build option](Build-options.md). + * The first (and only) argument is the path to the configuration file to load (usually ".config"). |