From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>,
openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: darren.hart@intel.com, Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: use oldnoconfig instead of yes '' | make oldconfig
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:52:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52CC68F0.1030605@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52CC65E5.6010003@windriver.com>
On 07/01/2014 21:39, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>
>> As shown in my commit log, using yes '' | make oldconfig is still
>> getting it wrong.
>
> But that was also my point. Since the target suggested in this
> patch hasn't always existed (and hence has a kernel version binding),
> why not use olddefconfig with this patch, and leave the functionality
> closer to its existing behaviour ? We'd still have a kernel capability
> binding, but we'd not have the =y converted to =m, and the default of
> 'y' for new functionality would be maintained.
>
Hum, I'm not sure I follow you. oldnoconfig and olddefconfig are exactly
the same. oldnoconfig has been renamed olddefconfig in 3.7 and
oldnoconfig is an alias to olddefconfig since then. I'm using
oldnoconfig only to be able to use that on a wider range of kernel versions.
--
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-07 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-07 14:18 [PATCH] kernel: use oldnoconfig instead of yes '' | make oldconfig Alexandre Belloni
2014-01-07 14:35 ` Martin Jansa
2014-01-07 15:20 ` Alexandre Belloni
2014-01-07 15:54 ` Martin Jansa
2014-01-07 18:11 ` Hart, Darren
2014-01-07 20:32 ` Alexandre Belloni
2014-01-07 21:32 ` Hart, Darren
2014-01-07 15:32 ` Bruce Ashfield
2014-01-07 20:27 ` Alexandre Belloni
2014-01-07 20:39 ` Bruce Ashfield
2014-01-07 20:52 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2014-01-07 21:14 ` Bruce Ashfield
2014-01-29 13:10 ` Alexandre Belloni
2014-01-29 15:03 ` Bruce Ashfield
2014-02-06 13:48 ` Bruce Ashfield
2014-02-06 21:48 ` Bruce Ashfield
2014-02-07 14:02 ` Alexandre Belloni
2014-02-07 15:11 ` Bruce Ashfield
2014-02-07 15:43 ` Alexandre Belloni
2014-02-07 16:10 ` Bruce Ashfield
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