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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 14:53:47 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] infra/pkg-kconfig: Be sure to reconfigure
 the package on foo-reconfigure
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Thomas, All,

On 2016-09-17 14:42 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:02:44 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
[--SNIP--]
> > So, I'd like to argue that this patch fixes the reported issue and covers
> > the use-case you pointed to.
> 
> That was not the use-case I pointed to, what I pointed to what the
> following use-case:
> 
>  1. Create a Buildroot configuration, with Linux enabled, using the
>     omap2plus_defconfig
> 
>  2. Build your system.
> 
>  3. Go in menuconfig, and change the Linux defconfig to
>     mvebu_v7_defconfig.
> 
>  4. Run "make linux-reconfigure"
> 
> I would expect the newly defined Linux configuration to be taken into
> account, but it's not, it only re-does the fixups and doesn't reload
> the configuration from mvebu_v7_defconfig.

Ah, I did not understand that. Indeed, this use-case is not covered,
neitehr currently nor with this patch applied.

However, I wonder how we could detect that condition...

> Now, we can discuss whether this is the behavior that we want or not.
> But at least,  that's the behavior I was referring to, and which your
> patch doesn't address.

Indeed, that's not covered. But neither is it a regression...

> *But*, I'll apply your patch nonetheless because it fixes other issues,
> and doesn't change the behavior I'm describing.

Thanks!

I'll see if we can do something to cover your use-case...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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