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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:53:49 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'
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On 07/30/2011 04:44 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> 
> Beside that, the one thing I dislike with your patch is that it is
> unconditional and global to all symbols, and you have no way to forbid
> the environment to override a value.
> 

Why????

	-hpa

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