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

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 20:24 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> It would seem that the underlying symbol is not visible, triggering
> the failure of sym_set_tristate_value().

Yes, this only lets you set *visible* symbols. If the symbol you're
interested in is not visible because some of its dependencies are not
set, it doesn't go and automatically enable those.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx                              Intel Corporation

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