From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755860Ab3LFAGH (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 19:06:07 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:30695 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752756Ab3LFAGE (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 19:06:04 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,837,1378882800"; d="scan'208";a="325960012" Message-ID: <52A11604.8000702@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:10:44 -0800 From: David Cohen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131005 Icedove/17.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: "Yann E. MORIN" , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , mmarek@suse.cz, rostedt@goodmis.org Subject: Re: make oldnoconfig fix? References: <1386039493.1974.305@driftwood> In-Reply-To: <1386039493.1974.305@driftwood> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/02/2013 06:58 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 11/11/2013 12:55:37 PM, David Cohen wrote: >> On 11/11/2013 10:13 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >>> David, All, >> >> Hi Yann, >> >>> >>> On 2013-11-11 10:11 -0800, David Cohen spake thusly: >>>> Is there a plan to fix 'make oldnoconfig' option? >>>> I currently have need to it :) >>>> I've tracked a thread fixing 'make olddefconfig' where 'oldnoconfig' >>>> option is reported as a known bug, right? >>> >>> Sorry, I don't understand what your problem is. >> >> Maybe I assumed it was more 'known' then it actually is :) >> >>> >>> Care to explain in details what problem you have: >>> - what you start with >>> - what you do >>> - what you get >>> - what you expected >> >> The bug with 'oldnoconfig' is: 'make oldnoconfig' is just an alias to >> 'olddefconfig'. Any non-existent config is defined with its default >> value instead of 'N'. >> >> I work with embedded platforms. I need to maintain a set of defconfigs >> for different products (customers some times want tailored configs, so >> creating a generic one isn't an option always). > > make allnoconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=oldconfigfile I'll give it a try. Thanks! > > I use this trick in http://landley.net/aboriginal/FAQ.html#dev_miniconfig > > And yes, I submitted it upstream a couple times last decade, with > documentation and everything: You could send it again. But maybe oldnoconfig would be a better name WRT current standard. Br, David > > https://lwn.net/Articles/160497/ > https://lwn.net/Articles/161086/ > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0607.0/1805.html > > Rob