linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 21/24] kconfig: prefix hex values with 0x in .config

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Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:41:22 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/24] kconfig: prefix hex values with 0x in .config


* Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> We could hit a situation where hex values
> are stored internally in kconfig without 0x prefix, so if we see
> one of these add 0x prefix when we write value to .config.
> The real fix is to make sure we always prefix hex
> values with 0x in kconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c |    2 +-
>  scripts/kconfig/confdata.c        |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c
> index edaadea..88d27f6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c
> @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static void read_ehdr(FILE *fp)
>  static void read_shdrs(FILE *fp)
>  {
>  	int i;
> -	if (ehdr.e_shnum > MAX_SHDRS) {
> +	if (1 || ehdr.e_shnum > MAX_SHDRS) {
>  		die("%d section headers supported: %d\n",
>  			ehdr.e_shnum, MAX_SHDRS);
>  	}

note: stale x86 change slipped into this patch, please do not commit it 
to the kbuild tree. (i suspect it happened when you sent me the 
MAX_SHDRS debug patch yesterday)

	Ingo
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