From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:50:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313077836.18037.34.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E43F413.5000104@suse.cz>
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 17:24 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>
> One of my use cases for all.config is
>
> $ cp .../older-working-config all.config
> $ make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=1 allmodconfig
>
> i.e. reuse what is possible from an older config and enable all new
> options. Surely it sometimes results in suboptimal configuration with
> unwanted debug options enabled, but most of the time it works. I won't
> be happy if you make it hard fail because of renamed or removed config
> options.
On the other hand, 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' probably *should* fail.
Perhaps it should set what it *can*, if you try to set multiple options
at once — but if it can't set all of them, it should exit with failure
status... which will mean that no subsequent build target will happen.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-11 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1312067499.22074.59.camel@i7.infradead.org>
2011-07-30 23:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: Factor out conf_validate_choice_val() function from conf_read_simple() David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 2:17 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 22:21 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:44 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 23:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-31 0:05 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 0:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-31 1:06 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 1:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-31 2:09 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 5:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 22:18 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-09 15:22 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 7:33 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 16:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-31 16:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 17:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-07-31 17:40 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-09 14:14 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-09 15:26 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 12:59 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-10 13:07 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 14:15 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 14:17 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 14:34 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 16:33 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 17:00 ` Emmanuel Deloget
2011-08-10 17:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-10 17:44 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 17:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-10 17:59 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 18:40 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 18:52 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-10 22:33 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-10 23:16 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 3:29 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-11 8:42 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 8:58 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 11:10 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 11:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-08-11 11:40 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 11:56 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 13:20 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 14:57 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-11 15:07 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-11 15:24 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-11 15:50 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2011-08-10 17:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-08-10 17:25 ` David Woodhouse
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