As 67d34a6a391369269a2e5dba8a5f42cc4cd50231 said, the make target 'oldnoconfig' is a misnomer. It doesn't set new symbols to 'n', but instead sets it to their default values. This patch fixes the document in conf.c, and will submit another patch to replace 'oldnoconfig' to 'olddefconfig' --- scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c index 0dc4a2c..6875680 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static void conf_usage(const char *progname) printf(" --oldaskconfig Start a new configuration using a line-oriented program\n"); printf(" --oldconfig Update a configuration using a provided .config as base\n"); printf(" --silentoldconfig Same as oldconfig, but quietly, additionally update deps\n"); - printf(" --oldnoconfig Same as silentoldconfig but set new symbols to no\n"); + printf(" --oldnoconfig Same as silentoldconfig but sets new symbols to their default value\n"); printf(" --defconfig <file> New config with default defined in <file>\n"); printf(" --savedefconfig <file> Save the minimal current configuration to <file>\n"); printf(" --allnoconfig New config where all options are answered with no\n"); -- 1.7.11.2 -- 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