linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

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Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:07:23 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

[Sam Ravnborg - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 11:45:34PM +0100]
| On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:34:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
| > 
| > On Mar 10 2007 22:27, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
| > >On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
| > >> 
| > >> Whether the 'working config file path' should change when you do
| > >> 'Save as Alternate' or not, is a menuconfig axiom. Ask Sam Ravnborg
| > >> if you want it changed :-)
| > >
| > >Current behaviour is not logical but on the other hand I do not
| > >see a big need to make it so.
| > >It seems that people very seldom uses "save alternate" anyway.
| > >
| > >But patches are welcome.
| > 
| > ^_^ The patch has already been posted, has not it?
| No.
| Either we keep current behaviour or we change to the "normal"
| behaviour with a "Save as..." as know from all other programs.
| 
| 	Sam
| 

Hi Sam,

here is a patch for menuconfig that shows current configuration
file. So I think menuconfig does its work well but the only
thing we need is to show location of an _active_ configuration.

Any comments are welcome (and you may swear at me too :)

		Cyrill


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