linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1

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Message-ID: <a781481a0705160217n1d783d6fk6068e1ac51cf3cc7@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 14:47:10 +0530
From:	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
To:	"Tilman Schmidt" <tilman@...p.cc>
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

On 5/16/07, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> wrote:
> 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.

Aargh, you're right. The prompt'll come only if it's a "(NEW)"
configmenu addition and hence not come after the first time either.
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