Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix oldnoconfig to do the right thing

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Wed Sep 08 2010 - 09:01:33 EST


On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> I found that when running make oldnoconfig on the kconfig branch of
> kbuild.git (which is currently a 2.6.35 + kconfig changes) against a
> 2.6.35-rc1 x86_64 defconfig, it mysteriously switches from
> CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y to CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO=y. With Kyle's patch it
> doesn't do this. I applied the patch now.
>

Yes, sorry, I had meant to followup with a diff of the resulting
configs. I noticed without the patch, that menu config options, like the
i386 processor selection, or the compression type, were getting set
incorrectly despite being set in the input oldconfig correctly.

Thanks Michal and Sam for the review!
Kyle
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