Re: Why did oldconfig's behavior change in 2.6.15-rc1?

Roman Zippel
2005-11-12T23:49:54Z

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Rob Landley wrote:

> Why did oldconfig switch off CONFIG_MODE_SKAS? It didn't do that before.
> Hmmm... Rummage, rummage... Darn it, it's position dependent. _And_
> version dependent.

It's _not_ position dependent, but the behaviour with multiple equal
symbols is undefined.

> Ok, now I have to put the new entries at the _beginning_. Appending them
> doesn't work anymore, it now ignores any symbol it's already seen, so you
> can't easily start with allnoconfig, switch on just what you want, and expect
> oldconfig to do anything intelligent.

Now you can put them in allno.config instead and allnoconfig will do the
right thing.

bye, Roman