linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

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Message-ID: <464ACB7E.9040405@imap.cc>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 11:14:38 +0200
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

Am 16.05.2007 03:39 schrieb Satyam Sharma:
["default n" for menuconfig]
> these problems would occur only the _first_ time someone
> transitions from the old .config's to the new scheme. But those
> "default y"s for all the various "configmenu"s (let's please call
> them that) that got introduced in the Kconfig files would cause
> unnecessary annoyance to users of make oldconfig _for ever_.

I'm not sure I'm following you. Where would that annoyance occur?
On subsequent uses of "make oldconfig" the default shouldn't even
matter, as the previous choice would just silently be kept.

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Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@...p.cc
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