Re: [PATCH 9/9] kconfig: add savedefconfig

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Mon Aug 02 2010 - 04:05:47 EST


Hello,

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:35:34PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> savedefconfig will save a minimal config to a file
> named "defconfig".
>
> The config symbols are saved in the same order as
> they appear in the menu structure so it should
> be possible to map them to the relevant menus
> if desired.
>
> The implementation was tested against several minimal
> configs for arm which was created using brute-force.
s/was/were/ I think.

> There was one regression related to default numbers
> which had their valid range further limited by another symbol.
>
> Sample:
>
> config FOO
> int "foo"
> default 4
>
> config BAR
> int "bar"
> range 0 FOO
>
> If FOO is set to 3 then BAR cannot take a value higher than 3.
> But the current implementation will set BAR equal to 4.
>
> This is seldomly used and the final configuration is OK,
> and the fix was non-trivial.
> So it was documented in the code and left as is.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Uwe

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