From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752869Ab1GaB25 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:28:57 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:32847 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752015Ab1GaB2u (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:28:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4E34AFAD.90008@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:28:13 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110707 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnaud Lacombe CC: David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' References: <1312067499.22074.59.camel@i7.infradead.org> <1312067670.22074.61.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4E34998D.8060806@zytor.com> <4E34A1E4.8040103@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/30/2011 06:06 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> > The principle of least surprise is broken anyway as the proposed patch > has absolutely no dependency checking and verification. You can `make > CONFIG_SATA_MV=y allnoconfig', you will _not_ get it set. > This gives you exactly the same way as a .config file or a ALLCONFIG file with the same options, which is what one realistically should expect. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.