Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Jul 30 2011 - 21:29:51 EST


On 07/30/2011 06:06 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>
> The principle of least surprise is broken anyway as the proposed patch
> has absolutely no dependency checking and verification. You can `make
> CONFIG_SATA_MV=y allnoconfig', you will _not_ get it set.
>
This gives you exactly the same way as a .config file or a ALLCONFIG
file with the same options, which is what one realistically should expect.

-hpa

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