Re: BUG: nconfig doesn't preserve case in its menu display

From: Michal Marek
Date: Tue Aug 17 2010 - 02:26:00 EST


On 17.8.2010 04:45, Li Zefan wrote:
> ä 2010å08æ17æ 05:04, Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason åé:
>> When I do "make nconfig" and go to "General Setup" my "Local version -
>> append to kernel release" entry appears as:
>>
>> (-avar-akbar) Local version - append to kernel release
>>
>> When I use "make menuconfig" it's:
>>
>> (-Avar-Akbar) Local version - append to kernel release
>>
>> And my .config agrees:
>>
>> $ ack -n1 CONFIG_LOCALVERSION .config
>> CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-Avar-Akbar"
>>
>> But when I edit the version string in both menuconfig and nconfig it
>> retains the correct casing.
>>
>> I briefly searched through the nconfig code, but couldn't find
>> anything pertinent to the localversion, so this is probably a more
>> general issue.
>
> The bug is in make_hot(). Here is the fix:

Nir removed the hotkeys feature in completely, can you try if the
problem persists in the for-next branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6.git ?
The commit is a72f3e2.

Michal
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