Re: CML2 funkiness

[David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>]

At 09:03 AM 1/2/02, Andrew Rodland wrote:
>First off, I'd like to apologize for lack of all the
>  information I'd like to have, I'm at school, and
>  temporarily semidisconnected at home.
>
>CML2 is definitely still not quite right for me
>(2.4.17 + kpreempt-rml, latest CML2 as of 3ish days ago).
>
>Menuconfig and friends seem okay, as far as I can tell (and
>  they've apparently been tested pretty well), but oldconfig
>  is wacky...
>
>So, "mv config .config ; make mrproper ; mv config .config
>  ; make oldconfig" does odd things to my config, but more
>  in-your-face, on "make oldconfig ; make oldconfig" (ad
>  inifinitum if you want), it will continue asking the same
>  questions, and never remember the answer.

Andrew,

I have just tested this, and have reproduced your problem.  Using 
kernel-2.4.16 and cml2-1.2.20, i.e. my current kernel and the latest CML2, 
I ran "make oldconfig" three times.  The first time I answered "n" to 21 
queries.  The second and third times, I had to answer "n" to 9 
queries.  The 9 all appeared in the first run and were exactly the same in 
the second and third runs.

Here're the 9 queries from runs 2 and 3:
EXPERT: Prompt for expert choices (those with no help attached) 
(EXPERIMENTAL) [ ] (NEW)?:
DEVELOPMENT: Configure a development or 2.5 kernel? (EXPERIMENTAL) [ ] (NEW)?:
CD_NO_IDESCSI: Support CD-ROM drives that are not SCSI or IDE/ATAPI [ ] 
(NEW)?:
IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER: Advanced router [ ] (NEW)?:
NET_VENDOR_SMC: Western Digital/SMC cards [ ] (NEW)?:
NET_VENDOR_RACAL: Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards [ ] (NEW)?:
NET_POCKET: Pocket and portable adapters [ ] (NEW)?:
HAMRADIO: Amateur Radio support [ ] (NEW)?:
FBCON_FONTS: Select other compiled-in fonts [ ] (NEW)?:

 From past testing of CML2 I know it uses file config.out as its 
"memory".  Looking in it, I didn't see any CONFIG symbols for these symbols.

There's definitely something here for Eric to fix!

David