From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davej@redhat.com, kyle@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com,
arjan@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig (v3)
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 07:28:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE4237A.8090701@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100507070257.GD5921@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
On 05/07/10 00:02, Américo Wang wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:48:34PM -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote:
>> This patch has been around for a long time in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise
>> Linux kernels and it may be useful for others. The nonint_oldconfig target
>> will fail and print the unset config options while loose_nonint_oldconfig will
>> simply let the config option unset. They're useful in distro kernel packages
>> where the config files are built using a combination of smaller config files.
>>
>> Arjan van de Ven wrote the initial nonint_config and Roland McGrath added the
>> loose_nonint_oldconfig.
>>
>> v2:
>> - when -B and -b are used, return "2" so the reason can be distinguished from
>> other errors
>> v3:
>> - help updated
>> - nonint_oldconfig won't update the config file if options are missing
>
> The patch looks fine, but, why the name 'nonint_oldconfig'?
> My English is not good enough to see what 'nonint' standards for...
non-interactive
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~Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-07 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-13 19:47 [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig Aristeu Rozanski
2010-04-13 20:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-13 20:18 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2010-04-13 20:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-13 20:44 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2010-04-13 21:03 ` [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig (v2) Aristeu Rozanski
2010-04-13 21:26 ` Kyle McMartin
2010-04-14 13:22 ` Michal Marek
2010-05-06 16:48 ` [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig (v3) Aristeu Rozanski
2010-05-07 7:02 ` Américo Wang
2010-05-07 14:28 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2010-05-12 6:12 ` Américo Wang
2010-06-02 12:44 ` Michal Marek
2010-04-13 20:43 ` [PATCH] kconfig: introduce nonint_oldconfig and loose_nonint_oldconfig Arjan van de Ven
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