Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1

Roman Zippel
2007-06-29T14:17:32Z

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> So save yourself some hassle and check your .config carefully before
> building this kernel. Make sure that everything you need is still enabled.
>
> I found that manually adding "CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y" to the .config before
> running oldconfig saved a large number of config items from getting lost.

This patch should help for this, so that this isn't done when Kconfig or
.config has been changed and they are not in sync.

bye, Roman

Reset generates values only if Kconfig and .config agree.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

---
scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -341,27 +341,42 @@ int conf_read(const char *name)
conf_unsaved++;
/* maybe print value in verbose mode... */
sym_ok:
+ if (!sym_is_choice(sym))
+ continue;
+ /* The choice symbol only has a set value (and thus is not new)
+ * if all its visible childs have values.
+ */
+ prop = sym_get_choice_prop(sym);
+ flags = sym->flags;
+ for (e = prop->expr; e; e = e->left.expr)
+ if (e->right.sym->visible != no)
+ flags &= e->right.sym->flags;
+ sym->flags &= flags | ~SYMBOL_DEF_USER;
+ }
+
+ for_all_symbols(i, sym) {
if (sym_has_value(sym) && !sym_is_choice_value(sym)) {
- if (sym->visible == no)
+ /* Reset values of generates values, so they'll appear
+ * as new, if they should become visible, but that
+ * doesn't quite work if the Kconfig and the saved
+ * configuration disagree.
+ */
+ if (sym->visible == no && !conf_unsaved)
sym->flags &= ~SYMBOL_DEF_USER;
switch (sym->type) {
case S_STRING:
case S_INT:
case S_HEX:
- if (!sym_string_within_range(sym, sym->def[S_DEF_USER].val))
- sym->flags &= ~(SYMBOL_VALID|SYMBOL_DEF_USER);
+ /* Reset a string value if it's out of range */
+ if (sym_string_within_range(sym, sym->def[S_DEF_USER].val))
+ break;
+ sym->flags &= ~(SYMBOL_VALID|SYMBOL_DEF_USER);
+ conf_unsaved++;
+ break;
default:
break;
}
}
- if (!sym_is_choice(sym))
- continue;
- prop = sym_get_choice_prop(sym);
- flags = sym->flags;
- for (e = prop->expr; e; e = e->left.expr)
- if (e->right.sym->visible != no)
- flags &= e->right.sym->flags;
- sym->flags &= flags | ~SYMBOL_DEF_USER;
}

sym_add_change_count(conf_warnings || conf_unsaved);