From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:49:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:48:51 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:25096 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:48:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:51:59 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: David Woodhouse Cc: Russell King , Nicolas Pitre , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5 Message-ID: <20010622095159.B13075@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , David Woodhouse , Russell King , Nicolas Pitre , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010621185144.A8669@thyrsus.com> <20010621154934.A6582@thyrsus.com> <20010621234002.Z18978@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20010621185144.A8669@thyrsus.com> <8226.993198272@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <8226.993198272@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:24:32AM +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse : > > esr@thyrsus.com said: > > I've done that in my rulesfile, thanks. Here is the current list of > > ignored symbols: > > > derive CMDLINE_BOOL from n > ....etc... > > > That'll nicely break oldconfig behaviour when the options in question do > get merged into the main tree, won't it? Actually, what will happen is that when the symbol goes active and I know about it, I'll add a declaration to the symbols table. Then, if I've forgotten that I had the symbol on my ignore list, I'll get a compilation error the next time I try to builsd a rulebase. -- Eric S. Raymond A ``decay in the social contract'' is detectable; there is a growing feeling, particularly among middle-income taxpayers, that they are not getting back, from society and government, their money's worth for taxes paid. The tendency is for taxpayers to try to take more control of their finances .. -- IRS Strategic Plan, (May 1984)