On 11/11/2013 10:55 AM, 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). > > In order to have full control of the .config generated out of > defconfigs, I don't allow any CONFIG_ to be selected implicitly. So > everytime a Kconfig is changed in our internal tree, we need to update > all defconfigs either with CONFIG_... = [y|n] or # CONFIG_... is not set > > If I managed to get 'make oldnoconfig' working, I could not care about > # CONFIG_... is not set and internal and changes to defconfigs would be > easily to understand and review. > >> >> So we can try to reproduce the issue and investigate what is wrong. > > All we need to know is explained in this commit: > > commit fb16d8912db5268f29706010ecafff74b971c58d > Author: Adam Lee <adam8157@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Sep 1 01:05:17 2012 +0800 > > kconfig: replace 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', and keep the old > name as an alias > > As 67d34a6a391369269a2e5dba8a5f42cc4cd50231 said, 'oldnoconfig' doesn't > set new symbols to 'n', but instead sets it to their default values. > > So, this patch replaces 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', stop making > people confused, and keep the old name 'oldnoconfig' as an alias, > because people already are dependent on its behavior with the > counter-intuitive name. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Lee <adam8157@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> > > >> >> Since you mention an existing thread, please add a pointer (URL) to >> this thread in the archives (Use: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild ). > > This is the thread I was talking about: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kbuild.devel/8560 > > Master Yoda promised to fix it when the problem gets bigger :) Any comments here? :) Br, David Cohen -- 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
