linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: make oldconfig less chatty and clean up conf.c

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805061103090.16731@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Tue, 6 May 2008 11:03:55 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: make oldconfig less chatty and clean up
 conf.c


On Tuesday 2008-05-06 05:08, Roman Zippel wrote:
>
>I strongly disagree with this, please preserve the old behaviour. It took 
>a while to work out the current behaviour.
>Only silentoldconfig checks for stdin because it's used as hook during 
>kbuild to verify the config. For all other interactive targets the user 
>has to know what he's doing, e.g. it's valid to do "yes '' | make 
>oldconfig".

Noting that `yes | make oldconfig` is often not the right thing anyway
(you want modules most of the time) or does not even work (things
that can only be modules [M/n] cannot take y).

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