Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:19:00 +1100 |
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:03:23 +0100 (CET), Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote: >On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Keith Owens wrote: > >> cat > .force_default <<EOF >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y >> EOF >> make allmodconfig >> >> That used to work, until 2.5.48. Being able to force selected options >> and have the rest of the options default to all Y or all M was >> extremely useful. What a pity that Kconfig removed this facility. > >It's not that difficult to reimplement, but it was an undocumented >feature
Bullshit. It was fully documented in kbuild 2.5. Just because Kai dropped the docs when he stole bits from kbuild 2.5 does not make .force_default into an undocumented feature.
>so I'd rather concentrated on the rest and waited until one of a >few people who knew about this feature would complain.
People do not know about it because Kai dropped the docs.
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