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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:29:58 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides
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Hi Rob & Jan.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:44:08PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> Allow config variables in .config to override earlier ones in the same
> file. In other words,
> 
> 	# CONFIG_SECURITY is not defined
> 	CONFIG_SECURITY=y
> 
> will activate it. This makes it a bit easier to do
> 
> 	(cat original-config myconfig myconfig2 ... >.config)
> 
> and run menuconfig as expected.


How far is this from the miniconfig functionality?
Is it the same or can we achieve the miniconfig support
by extending Jan's patch?

See: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/12/391

	Sam