Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe

From: Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 07:03:23 EST


Hi,

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Keith Owens wrote:

> cat > .force_default <<EOF
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
> EOF
> make allmodconfig
>
> That used to work, until 2.5.48. Being able to force selected options
> and have the rest of the options default to all Y or all M was
> extremely useful. What a pity that Kconfig removed this facility.

It's not that difficult to reimplement, but it was an undocumented
feature, so I'd rather concentrated on the rest and waited until one of a
few people who knew about this feature would complain.

bye, Roman

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