Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig'

From: Arnaud Lacombe
Date: Sat Jul 30 2011 - 20:05:45 EST


Hi,

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:53 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/30/2011 04:44 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>
>> Beside that, the one thing I dislike with your patch is that it is
>> unconditional and global to all symbols, and you have no way to forbid
>> the environment to override a value.
>>
>
> Why????
>
Because kconfig might not be ran exclusively from a fully controlled
and restricted environment ? Not to mention that it is used by other
people than the linux kernel folks.

- Arnaud
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