Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:50:34 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 17:24 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > > One of my use cases for all.config is > > $ cp .../older-working-config all.config > $ make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=1 allmodconfig > > i.e. reuse what is possible from an older config and enable all new > options. Surely it sometimes results in suboptimal configuration with > unwanted debug options enabled, but most of the time it works. I won't > be happy if you make it hard fail because of renamed or removed config > options.
On the other hand, 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' probably *should* fail. Perhaps it should set what it *can*, if you try to set multiple options at once — but if it can't set all of them, it should exit with failure status... which will mean that no subsequent build target will happen.
-- dwmw2
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