From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:09:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:07:57 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:15538 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:07:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:13:03 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working Message-ID: <20021105171303.GA20881@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jeff Garzik , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel References: <20021105165024.GJ13587@suse.de> <3DC7FB11.10209@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DC7FB11.10209@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk