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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help
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Masahiro,

On 09/01/2018 23:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> > "(oldconfig used to be more verbose)"

> The historical background is git.
> If people are interested in archeology,
> they would be able to do it by "git log", "git blame", etc.
> We are generally interested in the current behavior.

I'd like to keep that sentence because it's there to explain the legacy and
confusing "--silentoldconfig" name which unfortunately still sticks out in
the *current* conf.c interface.

+ printf(" --silentoldconfig Similar to oldconfig but generates configuration in\n"
+ " include/{generated/,config/} (oldconfig used to be more verbose)\n");

The purpose of this sentence is to warn people that: "silentoldconfig is
just archeology, so you can safely ignore it" and save them time.

The alternative I considered was to entirely remove "silentconfig" not just
from the Makefile's help but from the conf.c help too.

Thoughts?

--
Marc

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