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

Michal Marek
2010-10-08T14:54:42Z

On 8.10.2010 16:36, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 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.

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that this is a regression from 2.6.35 and
applied it to the kconfig branch, which is part of for-next. I'll try to
send a pull request with this patch and two other later today, but I
don't know if Linus is going to accept it.

Michal