linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:32:05 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC:	zippel@...ux-m68k.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow kconfig to accept overrides

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Oct 12 2007 15:57, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:44:08 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>>> warning("override: %s turns state choice", sym->name);
>> What does that warning message mean?  I can't decipher it.
> 
> It is when the value of a "choice" kconfig object is changed, for example
> this .config excerpt:
> 
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is not set
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
> CONFIG_REEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
> 
>> Other than that, it works for me.  Thanks.
> 
> /What/ works, the patch, or the tree without the patch? (Note I was
> testing that on 2.6.23.1, not the git head, so if someone silently
> merged things behind me, I might have missed it. Then again, that
> would have probably caused an offset, fuzz or reject, which was not
> the case.)

The patch and me modifying the .config file by hand to cause overrides.

-- 
~Randy
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