From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:28:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E34AFAD.90008@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACqU3MVkLXoBq7KP2Jff=p7EiKR7DkPa4z7y0Rdah-dGzRvj4g@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/30/2011 06:06 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>
> The principle of least surprise is broken anyway as the proposed patch
> has absolutely no dependency checking and verification. You can `make
> CONFIG_SATA_MV=y allnoconfig', you will _not_ get it set.
>
This gives you exactly the same way as a .config file or a ALLCONFIG
file with the same options, which is what one realistically should expect.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-31 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-07-30 23:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: Factor out conf_validate_choice_val() function from conf_read_simple() David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 2:17 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 22:21 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:44 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 23:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-31 0:05 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 0:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-31 1:06 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 1:28 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-07-31 2:09 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 2:09 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 5:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 22:18 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-09 15:22 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 7:33 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 16:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-31 16:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 17:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-31 17:40 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-09 14:14 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-09 15:26 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 12:59 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-10 13:07 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 14:15 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 14:17 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 14:34 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 16:33 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 17:00 ` Emmanuel Deloget
2011-08-10 17:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-10 17:44 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 17:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-10 17:59 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 18:40 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 18:52 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 22:33 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 23:16 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 3:29 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-11 8:42 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 8:58 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 11:10 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 11:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-08-11 11:40 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 11:56 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 13:20 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 14:57 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-11 14:57 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-11 15:07 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 15:24 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 15:50 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 17:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-08-10 17:25 ` David Woodhouse
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