From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:50:47 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 9 v4] Config.in.legacy: update description for users In-Reply-To: <87ob8a54ie.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <20130902225514.7d9323cc@skate> <52257EA4.9030001@mind.be> <20130903091818.616d6665@skate> <20130903135209.3b1ea8f5@skate> <87ob8a54ie.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <52261367.8040905@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 09/03/13 17:06, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > > > Thomas> So far, the only problem I see with this are related to minimal > Thomas> defconfigs. In the case (1) above, the minimal defconfig will continue > Thomas> to contain the name of the legacy option, and not the name of the new > Thomas> option, since the new option is selected by the legacy option. This is > Thomas> annoying since it means minimal defconfigs are not progressively > Thomas> updated to use the new option name. And this probably makes my entire > Thomas> proposal moot. > > Damn, yes :/ > > So people really do need to explictly change to the new option / restart > make menuconfig. I never tried it, but a workaround could be to run olddefconfig before any interactive config (menuconfig, nconfig, xconfig, qconfig). olddefconfig should be equivalent to saving immediately. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F