linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG

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Message-ID: <4E42C5B8.3060709@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:54:00 -0500
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
CC:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'

On 08/10/2011 12:44 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Exactly my point, you just successfully created an half-backed config
> which is different than what Aunt Tillie wanted you to generate. This
> should be an hard error, same for "all*.config", not to mention that
> the error message is far from being helpful.

Arnaud,

This is arguably a bug in how config fragments are injected via any
mechanism, but that is completely orthogonal to us wanting another
injection mechanism.

	-hpa

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