Re: strange behaviour from "make localmodconfig" throws out ath9k stuff

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Robert, All,

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 02:19:05PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i'm going to take a wild, uneducated stab at this, but it matches
> what i was starting to suspect, anyway. this has nothing to do with
> config processing, it has to do specifically with how the Kconfig
> entries related to atheros cards were changed.
> 
>   here's the important part:
> 
> $ git show 23c1d7f
> ... snip ...
>     So, this patch introduce new Kconfig variable ATH_CARDS for belonging
>     to the "Atheros Wireless Cards" family; while ATH_COMMON becomes hidden
>     variable to express dependency on common Atheros code in ath.ko. Modules
>     that depend on this common code now express it by setting ATH_COMMON.
> ... snip ...
> -menuconfig ATH_COMMON
> +config ATH_COMMON
> +       tristate
> +
> +menuconfig ATH_CARDS
> 
>   in short, a new variable, ATH_CARDS, was introduced that doesn't
> appear in the earlier .config so, unsurprisingly, when you run "make
> oldconfig", in the midst of all of the other manual answers, you have
> to specify what you want done, and look at the default:
> 
> $ make oldconfig
> ... many manual choices ...
> Atheros Wireless Cards (ATH_CARDS) [N/m/?] (NEW)   <-- there's the culprit
> ... snip ...
> 
>   so running the standard "yes '' | make oldconfig" is going to
> deselect what looks like almost all ath9k-related stuff, simply
> because a new, low-level dependency variable was introduced.
> 
>   am i making sense here?

Not sure how streamline_config,pl should behave. Cc-ing Steven as the
original author, maybe he has a better understanding on this situation.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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