Re: Why did oldconfig's behavior change in 2.6.15-rc1?

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Rob Landley wrote:

> Why did oldconfig switch off CONFIG_MODE_SKAS?  It didn't do that before.  
> Hmmm...  Rummage, rummage...  Darn it, it's position dependent.  _And_ 
> version dependent.

It's _not_ position dependent, but the behaviour with multiple equal 
symbols is undefined.

> Ok, now I have to put the new entries at the _beginning_.  Appending them 
> doesn't work anymore, it now ignores any symbol it's already seen, so you 
> can't easily start with allnoconfig, switch on just what you want, and expect 
> oldconfig to do anything intelligent.

Now you can put them in allno.config instead and allnoconfig will do the 
right thing.

bye, Roman
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