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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:54:33 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] config: Add 'make kvmconfig'
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* Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> > ? It would be very obvious at a glance what it does.
> 
> This fits in the generic "I have a .config and I want to enable an 
> additional option" functionality:
> 
> make oldconfig CONFIG_KVMTOOL_TEST_ENABLE=y
> 
> Don't we already have that support? I seem to remember it flying 
> by. Or was it just a proposal that never got implemented?

Well, it would be nice to have something (much) shorter and more 
obvious, as we really expect to use this frequently.

Maybe:

  make oldconfig kvm

would work too.

Thanks,

	Ingo