make oldconfig (Re: mmotm 2020-07-27-18-18 uploaded (mm/page_alloc.c))

Alexey Dobriyan
2020-07-29T14:09:59Z

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:44:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:39:21 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On 7/28/20 2:55 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:33:58 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 7/27/20 6:19 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >>> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2020-07-27-18-18 has been uploaded to
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> >
> >
> > >> on x86_64:
> > >>
> > >> ../mm/page_alloc.c:8355:48: warning: ‘struct compact_control’ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
> > >> static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc,
> > >> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >
> > > As is usually the case with your reports, I can't figure out how to
> > > reproduce it. I copy then .config, run `make oldconfig' (need to hit
> > > enter a zillion times because the .config is whacky)

If it helps with Enter:

yes '' | make oldconfig

Works 99.99% of the time except when there is numeric/string option
without default value.