[GIT PATCH] kconfig: fix overly agressive make oldconfig

* [GIT PATCH] kconfig: fix overly agressive make oldconfig
@ 2007-09-01  6:29 Sam Ravnborg
  2007-09-21 21:31 ` patch kconfig-oldconfig-shall-not-set-symbols-if-it-does-not-need-to.patch queued to -stable tree gregkh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sam Ravnborg @ 2007-09-01  6:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, stable; +Cc: Hugh Dickins, Roman Zippel, LKML

This is both -rc and stable material.
Subject: kconfig: oldconfig shall not set symbols if it does not need to
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

Avoid setting the value if the symbol doesn't need to be changed or can't
be changed. Later choices may change the dependencies and thus the
possible input range.

make oldconfig from a 2.6.22 .config with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU not set
was in some configurations setting CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y without asking,
even when there was no actual requirement for CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
This was triggered by SUSPEND_SMP that does a select HOTPLUG_CPU.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---

The patch can be pulled from (when mirrored out):
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fix.git

	Sam


 scripts/kconfig/conf.c |   21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
===================================================================

--- linux-2.6.orig/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
+++ linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/conf.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void check_stdin(void)
 	}
 }
 
-static void conf_askvalue(struct symbol *sym, const char *def)
+static int conf_askvalue(struct symbol *sym, const char *def)
 {
 	enum symbol_type type = sym_get_type(sym);
 	tristate val;
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static void conf_askvalue(struct symbol 
 		printf("%s\n", def);
 		line[0] = '\n';
 		line[1] = 0;
-		return;
+		return 0;
 	}
 
 	switch (input_mode) {
@@ -97,23 +97,23 @@ static void conf_askvalue(struct symbol 
 	case set_random:
 		if (sym_has_value(sym)) {
 			printf("%s\n", def);
-			return;
+			return 0;
 		}
 		break;
 	case ask_new:
 	case ask_silent:
 		if (sym_has_value(sym)) {
 			printf("%s\n", def);
-			return;
+			return 0;
 		}
 		check_stdin();
 	case ask_all:
 		fflush(stdout);
 		fgets(line, 128, stdin);
-		return;
+		return 1;
 	case set_default:
 		printf("%s\n", def);
-		return;
+		return 1;
 	default:
 		break;
 	}
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ static void conf_askvalue(struct symbol 
 	case S_HEX:
 	case S_STRING:
 		printf("%s\n", def);
-		return;
+		return 1;
 	default:
 		;
 	}
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ static void conf_askvalue(struct symbol 
 		break;
 	}
 	printf("%s", line);
+	return 1;
 }
 
 int conf_string(struct menu *menu)
@@ -187,7 +188,8 @@ int conf_string(struct menu *menu)
 		def = sym_get_string_value(sym);
 		if (sym_get_string_value(sym))
 			printf("[%s] ", def);
-		conf_askvalue(sym, def);
+		if (!conf_askvalue(sym, def))
+			return 0;
 		switch (line[0]) {
 		case '\n':
 			break;
@@ -240,7 +242,8 @@ static int conf_sym(struct menu *menu)
 		if (menu_has_help(menu))
 			printf("/?");
 		printf("] ");
-		conf_askvalue(sym, sym_get_string_value(sym));
+		if (!conf_askvalue(sym, sym_get_string_value(sym)))
+			return 0;
 		strip(line);
 
 		switch (line[0]) {


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