From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35899 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753664Ab1HJR5u (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:57:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4E42C5B8.3060709@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:54:00 -0500 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' References: <1312067499.22074.59.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312067670.22074.61.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4E34998D.8060806@zytor.com> <4E4140B3.7090802@suse.cz> <4E4280BA.9050109@suse.cz> <1312981658.2989.39.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312985888.2989.46.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312993987.2989.53.camel@i7.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: David Woodhouse , Michal Marek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On 08/10/2011 12:44 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Exactly my point, you just successfully created an half-backed config > which is different than what Aunt Tillie wanted you to generate. This > should be an hard error, same for "all*.config", not to mention that > the error message is far from being helpful. Arnaud, This is arguably a bug in how config fragments are injected via any mechanism, but that is completely orthogonal to us wanting another injection mechanism. -hpa