linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Enable 'make CONFIG

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Message-ID: <1306856937.27477.3.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 31 May 2011 16:48:56 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 20:24 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> It would seem that the underlying symbol is not visible, triggering
> the failure of sym_set_tristate_value().

Yes, this only lets you set *visible* symbols. If the symbol you're
interested in is not visible because some of its dependencies are not
set, it doesn't go and automatically enable those.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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