Re: UNS: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: add *_silentdefconfig feature forconfig targets

From: Andres Salomon
Date: Mon Oct 22 2007 - 15:01:03 EST


On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:21:55 +0200 (CEST)
Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Andres Salomon wrote:
>
> > > I would really like to avoid another input mode.
> > > I think it be better to implement this as a combination of "-s -D
> > > <default>" and the silent mode is adjusted to read another config
> > > instead of .config if defconfig_file is set.
> > >
> >
> > As would I; however, that requires using getopt() (or equivalent).
> > I wasn't sure if there was some opposition to this..
>
> I'm not sure how getopt() would change much (besides changing the
> "if" to a "while"), but I don't really mind either way.
>

It would allow more flexibilty; being able to specify multiple
arguments, for example. Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to work
on this, but I did do the getopt patch. Since it's been sitting on my
drive for a while, I should probably send it out before I lose it. :)
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