Menuconfig does not check properly if defconfig has allowed values in it,
although make config works properly.
One example is when you define e.g. CONFIG_IP_ALIAS in defconfig to
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=m
but it is
bool '' CONFIG_IP_ALIAS
Then menuconfig shows you [*] for IP Aliasing, but writes
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=m
to .config.
IMO, menuconfig should put up a big fat warning that defconfig is bad (with
a mail address of port maintainer to report it), or at least write .config
correctly.
I think that is worth of checking, I know port maintainers should care about what
is in their defconfig, but you know, it is better when something is looking
after it to make sure things are right. IP Aliasing used to be tristate,
that's why it has been till today in defconfig =m...
Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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