Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

From: Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 17:26:11 EST


On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:35:12PM -0400, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:31:12PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > You are proposing an interface that will handle easy cases but blow
> > up in the user's face in any hard one. That's poor design, frustrating
> > the user exactly when he/she most needs help.
>
> Yeah, but what is the current method, vi?

If you edit a .config (current or CML2'ed) and fix a problem, it works.
What was the question again? (And, if you edit an old .config, %s/^# CONFIG/CONFIG and %s/ is not set/=n, oldconfig works like you would expect, and can help
point out places where CML2 is slightly off).

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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