Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix oldnoconfig to do the right thing

Kyle McMartin
2010-10-08T14:36:47Z

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> I found that when running make oldnoconfig on the kconfig branch of
> kbuild.git (which is currently a 2.6.35 + kconfig changes) against a
> 2.6.35-rc1 x86_64 defconfig, it mysteriously switches from
> CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y to CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO=y. With Kyle's patch it
> doesn't do this. I applied the patch now.
>

Hi Michal,

Can we get this sent to Linus before 2.6.36? It would be awkward to
release 2.6.36 with oldnoconfig working the broken way, and then patch
it after release.

--Kyle