[Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 9 v4] Config.in.legacy: update description for users

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 09/04/13 10:33, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> Hi Arnout,
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:
>> On 09/03/13 17:06, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>
> I tried it manually (not yet integrated in a Makefile) and it works as expected.
> However, a disadvantage is that any new symbol will no longer be
> marked as NEW in the interactive config. So the trade-off would be
> between loosing this NEW marker, and requiring the user to do an
> intermediate save.

  If the user does an intermediate save, the NEW marker will also be gone...

  But at least, this is only for a user that has legacy stuff, not for 
all those innocent people out there that just do a 'make menuconfig' 
after 'git pull'.

  Regards,
  Arnout


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