Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix oldnoconfig to do the right thing

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Sep 05 2010 - 02:18:24 EST


On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:21:30AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit 861b4ea4 broke oldnoconfig when removed the oldnoconfig checks on
> if (input_mode == nonint_oldconfig ||
> input_mode == oldnoconfig) {
> if (input_mode == nonint_oldconfig &&
> sym->name &&
> !sym_is_choice_value(sym)) {
> to avoid oldnoconfig chugging through the else stanza.
>
> Fix that to restore expected behaviour (which I've confirmed in the
> Fedora kernel build that the configs end up looking the same.)

I played aroud with this.
I looks like the only difference I got was that before
your patch oldnoconfig produced a lot of output to stdout.
With your patch is was silent.

The resulting config was the same.

We obviously want the silent variant.

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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