Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] kconfig: rename silentoldconfig to syncconfig

[Randy Dunlap]

On 02/27/2018 04:15 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> As commit cedd55d49dee ("kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help
> and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help") mentioned, 'silentoldconfig' is a
> historical misnomer.  That commit removed it from help and docs since
> it is an internal interface.  If so, it should be allowed to rename
> it to something more intuitive.  'syncconfig' is the one I came up
> with because it updates the .config if necessary, then synchronize
> other files with it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   - newly added
> 
>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt |  2 +-
>  Makefile                         |  2 +-
>  scripts/kconfig/Makefile         |  4 ++--
>  scripts/kconfig/conf.c           | 20 ++++++++++----------
>  4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

It wouldn't hurt to update this line also: (I would just drop "silentoldconfig")

     Make oldconfig/silentoldconfig/menuconfig/etc.

in Documentation/networking/i40e.txt.


thanks,
-- 
~Randy