On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:47:48 -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. > The patch's author AFAIK is Arjan van de Ven. Arjan, please add a Signed-off-by > if you're the original author. Roland McGrath added the loose parts according to his email of 2008.Mar.05: "I added this one (loose_nonint_oldconfig target, -B option to conf)." after Dave Jones posted this patch. (adding linux-kbuild mailing list & kbuild maintainer) Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx> > @@ -613,5 +641,5 @@ int main(int ac, char **av) > exit(1); > } > } > - return 0; > + return return_value; > } Having 'make oldconfig' exit with Exit status: 139 (for example) can be confusing. I know that from experience. It took me a bit to find out what that meant. That part could be improved... --- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
