linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

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Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:01:03 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, zippel@...ux-m68k.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Oct 13 2007 10:16, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Perhaps say
>>
>> 	warning("override: switching to choice %s", sym->name);
>>
>> if sym->name is [CONFIG_]PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY.  Or what is it?
> 
> .config:176:warning: override: reassigning to symbol PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
> .config:176:warning: override: PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY turns state choice

Try to make it a single warning.

> Which seems correct, as PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y will overturn
> the previous decision.
> 
> Perhaps it should be "%s overturns state choice" ?

Sounds like "overthrows government".
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Stefan Richter
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