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DateWed, 16 May 2007 14:47:10 +0530
From"Satyam Sharma" <>
SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.22-rc1
On 5/16/07, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:
> Am 16.05.2007 03:39 schrieb Satyam Sharma:
> ["default n" for menuconfig]
> > these problems would occur only the _first_ time someone
> > transitions from the old .config's to the new scheme. But those
> > "default y"s for all the various "configmenu"s (let's please call
> > them that) that got introduced in the Kconfig files would cause
> > unnecessary annoyance to users of make oldconfig _for ever_.
>
> I'm not sure I'm following you. Where would that annoyance occur?
> On subsequent uses of "make oldconfig" the default shouldn't even
> matter, as the previous choice would just silently be kept.

Aargh, you're right. The prompt'll come only if it's a "(NEW)"
configmenu addition and hence not come after the first time either.
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