From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760751AbXJLXdY (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:33:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757821AbXJLXdP (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:33:15 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:31220 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756655AbXJLXdO (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:33:14 -0400 Message-ID: <471003F5.6050903@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:32:05 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: zippel@linux-m68k.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides References: <20071012155708.d8abd06d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Oct 12 2007 15:57, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:44:08 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >>> warning("override: %s turns state choice", sym->name); >> What does that warning message mean? I can't decipher it. > > It is when the value of a "choice" kconfig object is changed, for example > this .config excerpt: > > CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set > # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is not set > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set > CONFIG_REEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y > >> Other than that, it works for me. Thanks. > > /What/ works, the patch, or the tree without the patch? (Note I was > testing that on 2.6.23.1, not the git head, so if someone silently > merged things behind me, I might have missed it. Then again, that > would have probably caused an offset, fuzz or reject, which was not > the case.) The patch and me modifying the .config file by hand to cause overrides. -- ~Randy