linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: fix new choices being skipped upon config update

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Message-ID: <4F2125B3.4070000@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:06:43 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: fix new choices being skipped upon config update

On 26.1.2012 10:26, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 05:29:05PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
[...]
>> will not cause the choice to be considered as NEW, and thus not be asked. The
>> cause of this behavior is that choice's novelty are computed statically right
>> after the saved configuration has been read. At this point, the new dependency's
>> value is still unknown and asserted to be `no'. Moreover, no update to this
>> decision is made afterward.
>>
>> Correct this by dynamically evaluating a choice's novelty, and removing the
>> static evaluation.
>>
>> Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
>> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
>> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
>> Cc: Uwe Kleine-Konig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
>> Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-Konig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Thanks, applied to kbuild.git#kconfig.


> (Please note the umlaut o in my name. If you have problems with that,
> please at least write Kleine-Koenig.)

Fixed.

Michal
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