linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] kconfig: add savedefconfig

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Date:	Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:05:38 +0200
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] kconfig: add savedefconfig

Hello,

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:35:34PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> savedefconfig will save a minimal config to a file
> named "defconfig".
> 
> The config symbols are saved in the same order as
> they appear in the menu structure so it should
> be possible to map them to the relevant menus
> if desired.
> 
> The implementation was tested against several minimal
> configs for arm which was created using brute-force.
s/was/were/ I think.

> There was one regression related to default numbers
> which had their valid range further limited by another symbol.
> 
> Sample:
> 
> config FOO
> 	int "foo"
> 	default 4
> 
> config BAR
> 	int "bar"
> 	range 0 FOO
> 
> If FOO is set to 3 then BAR cannot take a value higher than 3.
> But the current implementation will set BAR equal to 4.
> 
> This is seldomly used and the final configuration is OK,
> and the fix was non-trivial.
> So it was documented in the code and left as is.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Thanks
Uwe

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