Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 12:13:03 EST

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:08:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> >Can it really be that one cannot edit a config file and run make
> >oldconfig anymore? I'm used to editing an entry in .config and running
> >oldconfig to fix things up, now it just reenables the option. That's
> >clearly a major regression.
> >
> It works fine for me :)
> I don't think I could survive without the tried and true "vi .config ;
> make oldconfig" kernel configurator :)

Here it seems to work fine if I delete a line completely, but
if I change
CONFIG_FOO=y
to
#CONFIG_FOO=y

it regenerates .config without the #
This used to work fine. I guess the new parser
is a little more strict..

                Dave 

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