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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Add merge_config.sh script
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:54:52 -0800
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To: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, gthelen@google.com, tartler@cs.fau.de, Dmitry Fink <Dmitry.Fink@palm.com>, Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>, Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>, Bruce Ashfield <Bruce.Ashfield@windriver.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 17:44 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:58 PM, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hey Andrew,
> >        I've tried sending this via Michal a few times, but haven't heard much
> > back. So I wanted to check if you would consider merging it via your
> > tree, or if you had any suggestions of who would be better to
> > review/merge this.
> >
> One of the worry I would have is that the script is merging config
> blindly, ie. there is no dependency checking done. I have some some
> work-in-progress to help resolving this, but still lots of thought to
> be implemented.

So the script actually does warn you if a specified option is dropped
due to missing dependencies or if the option is removed.  So, I guess
could you clarify your concern a bit more?

thanks
-john