linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/16] kconfig-allow-override.diff

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Message-ID: <20070401184441.GB10113@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:44:41 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] kconfig-allow-override.diff

This part of kconfig is taken care of by Roman Zippel.
Kept the full mail for his reference.

	Sam

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:17:32PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> Allow config variables in .config to override earlier ones in the same
> file. In other words,
> 
> 	# CONFIG_SECURITY is not defined
> 	CONFIG_SECURITY=y
> 
> will activate it. This makes it a bit easier to do
> 
> 	(cat original-config myconfig myconfig2 ... >.config)
> 
> and run menuconfig as expected.
> 
> Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/81
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@....de>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> 
>  confdata.c |   14 +++++---------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> @@ -170,8 +170,7 @@ load:
>  					sym->type = S_BOOLEAN;
>  			}
>  			if (sym->flags & def_flags) {
> -				conf_warning("trying to reassign symbol %s", sym->name);
> -				break;
> +				conf_warning("override: reassigning to symbol %s", sym->name);
>  			}
>  			switch (sym->type) {
>  			case S_BOOLEAN:
> @@ -210,8 +209,7 @@ load:
>  					sym->type = S_OTHER;
>  			}
>  			if (sym->flags & def_flags) {
> -				conf_warning("trying to reassign symbol %s", sym->name);
> -				break;
> +				conf_warning("override: reassigning to symbol %s", sym->name);
>  			}
>  			switch (sym->type) {
>  			case S_TRISTATE:
> @@ -288,11 +286,9 @@ load:
>  				}
>  				break;
>  			case yes:
> -				if (cs->def[def].tri != no) {
> -					conf_warning("%s creates inconsistent choice state", sym->name);
> -					cs->flags &= ~def_flags;
> -				} else
> -					cs->def[def].val = sym;
> +				if(cs->def[def].tri != no)
> +					conf_warning("override: %s turns state choice", sym->name);
> +				cs->def[def].val = sym;
>  				break;
>  			}
>  			cs->def[def].tri = E_OR(cs->def[def].tri, sym->def[def].tri);
> #<EOF>
-
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