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From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davej@redhat.com, kyle@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com,
	arjan@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig (v3)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 15:02:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100507070257.GD5921@cr0.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100506164834.GL20778@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:48:34PM -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote:
>This patch has been around for a long time in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise
>Linux kernels and it may be useful for others. The nonint_oldconfig target
>will fail and print the unset config options while loose_nonint_oldconfig will
>simply let the config option unset. They're useful in distro kernel packages
>where the config files are built using a combination of smaller config files.
>
>Arjan van de Ven wrote the initial nonint_config and Roland McGrath added the
>loose_nonint_oldconfig.
>
>v2:
>- when -B and -b are used, return "2" so the reason can be distinguished from
>  other errors
>v3:
>- help updated
>- nonint_oldconfig won't update the config file if options are missing

The patch looks fine, but, why the name 'nonint_oldconfig'?
My English is not good enough to see what 'nonint' standards for...

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-07  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100413194747.GX31193@redhat.com>
2010-04-13 20:00 ` [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig Randy Dunlap
2010-04-13 20:18   ` Aristeu Rozanski
2010-04-13 20:24     ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-13 20:44       ` Aristeu Rozanski
2010-04-13 21:03       ` [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig (v2) Aristeu Rozanski
2010-04-13 21:26         ` Kyle McMartin
2010-04-14 13:22         ` Michal Marek
2010-05-06 16:48           ` [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig (v3) Aristeu Rozanski
2010-05-07  7:02             ` Américo Wang [this message]
2010-05-07 14:28               ` Randy Dunlap
2010-05-12  6:12                 ` Américo Wang
2010-06-02 12:44             ` Michal Marek

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