From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751308AbXCJSx5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:53:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751343AbXCJSx5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:53:57 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:16897 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308AbXCJSx4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:53:56 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=ACyG8rvQJr6SyvoodzeuVJgT9pT/PjKwpUO8LsAQlgx5tpdpdzZH1zOGF7yxxtfzM7lokaCHtmwtAMXfZC8NJpwfw+j+LrhX6IACL6es9mgx5jQOvsXf1jcLPnRLVYnoUtL4SulUHMqw4eKljwNvlQQn34fueovpCdaqzU1FUDQ= Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:50:29 +0300 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel-list Subject: Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters. Message-ID: <20070310185029.GA20131@cvg> References: <20070310160542.21cdb968@localhost> <20070310160614.GB10230@cvg> <20070310194617.2aef1006@localhost> <20070310175058.GA19878@cvg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100] | | On Mar 10 2007 20:50, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > | >lets see to the following scenario: | > | > 1) I've taken a pure Linux kernel (no .config at all) | > 2) I started menuconfig, made a few changes and saved the file | > to .config1 as alternate | > 3) Then I made some additional changes | > 4) Then I'm getting out of menuconfig and of course "Save | > configuration..?" question is raising. Ok, I'm selecting | > "Yes" and as result new configuration will be written to the .config | > file. All works as it should be... | > | >...but as you mentoined in your message "perhaps all Office Suites do | >the same" - no, Office do not the same. | | | 1) I start a new document | 2) add some text, "save as" it to config1.txt | 3) make more text | 4) choose File,Exit - prompts me to save | | (perhaps not to .config, but instead config1.txt, but at least, it prompts and there you hit the problem to the eye - when you're working with text document you always know in *which* file you're now. So if you've saved alternate config - _keep his name in mind_ - that's what menuconfig tell us... | me, and gives me the choice to go back into menuconfig and save it under a | different name). So what I just wanted to make clear is that you don't | lose any changes without explicitly saying Don't Save. | | >The only question I have (and it could resolve all our problems) - what an | >alternate config file is: | > | > - just a snapshot of a config tree at moment of its writting | > - _working_ file to which configurator should write parameters | > | >your comments? | | Whether the 'working config file path' should change when you do | 'Save as Alternate' or not, is a menuconfig axiom. Ask Sam Ravnborg | if you want it changed :-) | | [ I see where you are going. I am not biased to either because I usually | only use it to save to .config. ] | | | | Jan | -- | Actually, I always work with only .config file too... and the reason I wrote you is Vladimir's mail... so either menuconfig does not work as expected or users does not expect a such behaviour of menuconfig. Cyrill