From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43983 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756479Ab2DXJTu (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:19:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4F96705C.5030901@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:20:28 +0200 From: Michal Marek MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuld: Implement oldmodconfig References: 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: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Arnaud Lacombe , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Dne 24.4.2012 02:59, Eric W. Biederman napsal(a): > > While verifying that my user namespace patches are as complete as I > expect them to be I came a came across the need to build kernel > configurations with a few choice settings disabled and everything else > enabled. Adding a make oldmodconfig made generating those > configurations straight forward, as now I can set the options I care > about and the oldmodconfig can answering everything else for me in a > consistent way. Doesn't KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=base.config make allmodconfig do the same thing? If not, the difference should be explained in the changelog. Michal