Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 10:57 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> 
> FWIW, this is the broken behavior I have been pointing all along...
> 
> If kconfig hard failed on such case, we would not need such Kbuild
> black-magic.
> 
> From my point of view, if environment override there should be, it
> should behave the same as the all.config logic and hard fail when an
> override has not been met. 
> Code wise, this would translate as backend code path being the same. 
 

The patches I have so far *do* behave the same as the all.config logic,
because the back end code *is* fairly much the same. I was looking at
the all.config logic when I wrote the patch to kconfig.

It *doesn't* currently hard fail. But I'm more than happy to make it do
so. I think you're right; that makes most sense.

I've just been looking at ways to allow real build targets to proceed
*only* if any config options specified on the command line *did* get
honoured by kconfig. But that gets a bit messy since you also want to
automatically trigger an 'oldconfig' run if anything was specified on
the command line. So you end up with one automatic oldconfig run in a
sub-make, then the *second* time around it when the supposedly identical
submake is invoked for the real build target, it would have to behave
differently.

I'm much happier with automatically triggering a reconfig if options are
given on the command line, and a hard fail if they can't be honoured.

That means that 'make CONFIG_FOO=y bzImage' will work 'properly', which
IMO is either to do as it was asked, or fail.

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dwmw2