linux-kernel - Re: BUG: nconfig doesn't preserve case in its menu display

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Message-ID: <4C6A2ABD.1090002@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:22:53 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@...il.com>,
	Linux is full of bugs <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: nconfig doesn't preserve case in its menu display

On 17.8.2010 04:45, Li Zefan wrote:
> 于 2010年08月17日 05:04, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 写道:
>> When I do "make nconfig" and go to "General Setup" my "Local version -
>> append to kernel release" entry appears as:
>>
>>     (-avar-akbar) Local version - append to kernel release
>>
>> When I use "make menuconfig" it's:
>>
>>     (-Avar-Akbar) Local version - append to kernel release
>>
>> And my .config agrees:
>>
>>     $ ack -n1 CONFIG_LOCALVERSION .config
>>     CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-Avar-Akbar"
>>
>> But when I edit the version string in both menuconfig and nconfig it
>> retains the correct casing.
>>
>> I briefly searched through the nconfig code, but couldn't find
>> anything pertinent to the localversion, so this is probably a more
>> general issue.
> 
> The bug is in make_hot(). Here is the fix:

Nir removed the hotkeys feature in completely, can you try if the
problem persists in the for-next branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6.git ?
The commit is a72f3e2.

Michal
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