linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: Add make olddefconfig

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Message-ID: <1316460879.3112.16.camel@work-vm>
Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:34:39 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, gthelen@...gle.com,
	tartler@...fau.de, Dmitry Fink <Dmitry.Fink@...m.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Eric B Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com>,
	Bruce Ashfield <Bruce.Ashfield@...driver.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: Add make olddefconfig

On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 08:06 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:49:18PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > This adds an "olddefconfig" build target, which updates a .config file
> > filling any any absent symbols with the Kconfig default value (note:
> > not the architecture defconfig value).
> 
> This looks like a shorthand for: make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=.config alldefconfig
> Maybe we need the more obvious target - but the functionality is at least now new.

Thanks for pointing that out! 

Unless anyone feels differently, I'll go ahead and drop this patch and
will rework my merge_config.sh script to utilize the above.

thanks
-john


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