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

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Message-ID: <20070310185029.GA20131@cvg>
Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:50:29 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: "Make nenuconfig" does not save parameters.

[Jan Engelhardt - Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100]
| 
| On Mar 10 2007 20:50, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| >
| >lets see to the following scenario:
| >
| >	1) I've taken a pure Linux kernel (no .config at all)
| >	2) I started menuconfig, made a few changes and saved the file
| >	to .config1 as alternate
| >	3) Then I made some additional changes
| >	4) Then I'm getting out of menuconfig and of course "Save
| >	configuration..?" question is raising. Ok, I'm selecting
| >	"Yes" and as result new configuration will be written to the .config
| >	file. All works as it should be...
| >	
| >...but as you mentoined in your message "perhaps all Office Suites do
| >the same" - no, Office do not the same.
| 
| 
| 	1) I start a new document
| 	2) add some text, "save as" it to config1.txt
| 	3) make more text
| 	4) choose File,Exit - prompts me to save
| 
| (perhaps not to .config, but instead config1.txt, but at least, it prompts

	and there you hit the problem to the eye - when you're working
	with text document you always know in *which* file you're now.
	So if you've saved alternate config - _keep his name in mind_ -
	that's what menuconfig tell us...

| me, and gives me the choice to go back into menuconfig and save it under a
| different name). So what I just wanted to make clear is that you don't
| lose any changes without explicitly saying Don't Save.
| 
| >The only question I have (and it could resolve all our problems) - what an
| >alternate config file is:
| >
| >	- just a snapshot of a config tree at moment of its writting
| >	- _working_ file to which configurator should write parameters
| >
| >your comments?
| 
| 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 :-)
| 
| [ I see where you are going. I am not biased to either because I usually
|   only use it to save to .config. ]
| 
| 
| 
| Jan
| -- 
| 

Actually, I always work with only .config file too... and the reason I
wrote you is Vladimir's mail... so either menuconfig does not work as
expected or users does not expect a such behaviour of menuconfig.

		Cyrill

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