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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "Martin.Knoblauch" <Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: make menuconfig - cosmetic question
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:18:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8652.990112737@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 May 2001 16:07:40 +0200." <3B03DB2C.1AC5D217@TeraPort.de>

On Thu, 17 May 2001 16:07:40 +0200, 
"Martin.Knoblauch" <Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Please turn off MIME when sending to linux-kernel, especially those
useless vcards at the end of your mail.

> When I diff config files pocessed by "make [old]config" and "make
>menueconfig", it seems that menuconfig is not writing out some of the
>"comments" that the other versions do write.

Congratulations, you have found reason #93 for replacing the current
configuration system (CML1) with something better - CML1 has multiple
parsers with subtly different rules and output.  CML2 will fix this, in
kernel 2.5.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-17 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-17 14:07 make menuconfig - cosmetic question Martin.Knoblauch
2001-05-17 13:15 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-05-17 15:28   ` Martin.Knoblauch
2001-05-17 16:19     ` Martin.Knoblauch
2001-05-17 17:12     ` sniffer gis88530
2001-05-17 15:18 ` Keith Owens [this message]

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