Re: Kconfig no longer outputs a .config with freshly updated defconfigs

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:50:16AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > > Why can't we simply always write the .config?
> > 
> > Hi Adrian.
> > 
> > I just pushed a patch that does this.
> 
> If I see it correctly that's not quite correct either. The old 
> silentoldconfig does a few things differently than a normal config target, 
> because it's a special target called by Kbuild when needed:
> 
> - bail out if input is needed but stdio is not a tty
> - silent mode
> - update .config only as needed
> - always update autoconf
> 
> With the change to make the silent mode the default, the "silent" name has 
> become a little obsolete and should probably be renamed, but whatever the 
> name above actions should still be done if called by Kbuild internally.

silentoldconfig now always update .config - and that a bug.
I was too hasty ghere - sorry.
Will fix it during the weekend.

	Sam