Re: Why does "make oldconfig" always set CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y ?

[Randy Dunlap]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:35:41 +0100 Toralf Förster wrote:

> I'm wondering why this option is always set after "make oldconfig" :
> 
> tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ grep _SLUB_DEBUG=y .config
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
> tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ sed -i -e 's/_SLUB_DEBUG=y/_SLUB_DEBUG=n/' .config
> tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ grep _SLUB_DEBUG= .config
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=n
> tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ make oldconfig 1>/dev/null
> tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ grep _SLUB_DEBUG= .config
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
> 
> I attached the .config

Because it defaults to y and you can't change it unless you
enable EMBEDDED.

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~Randy
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