From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:13:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021105171303.GA20881@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DC7FB11.10209@pobox.com>
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:08:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >Can it really be that one cannot edit a config file and run make
> >oldconfig anymore? I'm used to editing an entry in .config and running
> >oldconfig to fix things up, now it just reenables the option. That's
> >clearly a major regression.
> >
> It works fine for me :)
> I don't think I could survive without the tried and true "vi .config ;
> make oldconfig" kernel configurator :)
Here it seems to work fine if I delete a line completely, but
if I change
CONFIG_FOO=y
to
#CONFIG_FOO=y
it regenerates .config without the #
This used to work fine. I guess the new parser
is a little more strict..
Dave
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-05 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-05 16:50 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working Jens Axboe
2002-11-05 17:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-05 17:13 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-11-05 17:16 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-05 17:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-05 17:14 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-05 17:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-05 17:21 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-05 18:14 ` Joel Becker
2002-11-05 18:15 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-06 14:06 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-06 14:13 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-05 17:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-05 17:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-11-05 17:26 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-05 17:27 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-05 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-05 18:14 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-05 19:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-05 19:42 ` Petr Baudis
2002-11-05 20:51 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-05 20:16 ` Peter H. Ruegg
2002-11-05 18:55 ` [PATCH] Allow 'n' as a symbol value in the .config file Petr Baudis
2002-11-05 18:59 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-06 19:39 ` 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working Rob Landley
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