Make menuconfig and make kernel_menuconfig

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Hi I'm trying to understand about configurations in openwrt. Can someone please point me in the right direction

  1. What does make menuconfig exactly do.
  2. What does make kernel_menuconfig do.

And is it possible that a build goes successfully with a config file which is combination of both [ topdir/.config and target/Linux/*/config-]. Does it actually work ? If not what can be the possible issues.

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hi, check https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem

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Yeah, this helped thanks a lot, but I want to know how I can merge these two .config files into one, like both make menuconfig and make kernel_menuconfig to write into same .config file is there a script where can I modify and check ?

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no. they are doing two different things.

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To merge two different files, you might want to use the diff command and other CLI basic tools.

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