From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:53316 "EHLO rcsinet10.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753577Ab0EGO3P (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 10:29:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4BE4237A.8090701@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 07:28:10 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig (v3) References: <20100413194747.GX31193@redhat.com> <20100413130031.d4dec19b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20100413201759.GY31193@redhat.com> <4BC4D310.6060705@oracle.com> <20100413210352.GA31193@redhat.com> <4BC5C190.3020501@suse.cz> <20100506164834.GL20778@redhat.com> <20100507070257.GD5921@cr0.nay.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20100507070257.GD5921@cr0.nay.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Wang?= Cc: Aristeu Rozanski , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com, kyle@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com On 05/07/10 00:02, Américo Wang wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:48:34PM -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote: >> This patch has been around for a long time in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise >> Linux kernels and it may be useful for others. The nonint_oldconfig target >> will fail and print the unset config options while loose_nonint_oldconfig will >> simply let the config option unset. They're useful in distro kernel packages >> where the config files are built using a combination of smaller config files. >> >> Arjan van de Ven wrote the initial nonint_config and Roland McGrath added the >> loose_nonint_oldconfig. >> >> v2: >> - when -B and -b are used, return "2" so the reason can be distinguished from >> other errors >> v3: >> - help updated >> - nonint_oldconfig won't update the config file if options are missing > > The patch looks fine, but, why the name 'nonint_oldconfig'? > My English is not good enough to see what 'nonint' standards for... non-interactive -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***