As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189 silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an internal interface and "oldconfig" is just as silent now. It's not part of the user interface so remove it from "make help" to stop confusing people trying to use it as seen for instance at https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/271688 On the other hand, correct and expand its description in the help of scripts/kconfig/conf.c Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert <marc.herbert@xxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 1 - scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile index 297c1bf35140..bf13b8fa3ccc 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile +++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile @@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ help: @echo ' oldconfig - Update current config utilising a provided .config as base' @echo ' localmodconfig - Update current config disabling modules not loaded' @echo ' localyesconfig - Update current config converting local mods to core' - @echo ' silentoldconfig - Same as oldconfig, but quietly, additionally update deps' @echo ' defconfig - New config with default from ARCH supplied defconfig' @echo ' savedefconfig - Save current config as ./defconfig (minimal config)' @echo ' allnoconfig - New config where all options are answered with no' diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c index 866369f10ff8..f8c002a19f62 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c @@ -477,7 +477,10 @@ static void conf_usage(const char *progname) printf(" --listnewconfig List new options\n"); 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(" --silentoldconfig Similar to oldconfig but:\n" + " - no re-formatting of .config when nothing's missing\n" + " - generates configuration in include/{generated/,config/}\n" + " (oldconfig used to be more verbose)\n"); printf(" --olddefconfig Same as silentoldconfig but sets new symbols to their default value\n"); printf(" --oldnoconfig An alias of olddefconfig\n"); printf(" --defconfig <file> New config with default defined in <file>\n"); -- 2.9.5 -- 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
