From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:53889 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752198Ab0HFGBl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:01:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4C5BA55B.7050202@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:02:03 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: fix make oldconfig References: <20100804125156.GA23464@sepie.suse.cz> <4C5B64EA.2000804@gmail.com> <20100806051354.GA24343@merkur.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20100806051354.GA24343@merkur.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Linus Torvalds , Michal Marek , JBeulich@novell.com, aris@redhat.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, jacmet@sunsite.dk, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, ulfalizer.lkml@gmail.com, zippel@linux-m68k.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [PATCH] kconfig: fix make oldconfig > > Linus wrote: > This seems to make "make oldconfig" a _lot_ more verbose than it > used to be. In a very annoying way. > > I just did a quick git bisect. It's introduced by commit 4062f1a4c030 > ("kconfig: use long options in conf") by Sam Ravnborg. Apparently that > thing is totally buggy, and doesn't just change the option names, but > actively breaks them. > > The old behaviour (from years ago) were reintroduced by accident. > Fix this so we are back to the version that are silent > if there is nothing to ask about. > > Reported-by: Linus Torvalds > Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg > --- > > Sorry for this regression. Dunno how I missed it. > I guess I only tested "silentoldconfig". > > Following patch seems obviously correct but as I am on the way > out of the door I could not do much testing. > > Sam > > diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c > index 010600e..274f271 100644 > --- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c > +++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c > @@ -599,12 +599,12 @@ int main(int ac, char **av) > break; > case savedefconfig: > break; > - case oldconfig: > case oldaskconfig: > rootEntry =&rootmenu; > conf(&rootmenu); > input_mode = silentoldconfig; > /* fall through */ > + case oldconfig: > case listnewconfig: > case oldnoconfig: > case silentoldconfig: > Id like to be more useful with really hitting this, seems I was for a few moments, then something in there tripped and caused oldconfig to behave.. anyways only real evidence I have of hitting this is an fpaste of my shell output http://fpaste.org/LFew/ Anyways applied your patch below, make oldconfig worked as is no: make oldconfig scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig # # configuration written to .config # that I was hitting for some reason or another then all of a sudden disappeared. Justin P. Mattock