Hi Thomas,
On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 15:04, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> wrote:
> Am 20.05.25 um 14:40 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> > When moving the Sitronix DRM drivers and renaming their Kconfig symbols,
> > the old symbols were kept, aiming to provide a seamless migration path
> > when running "make olddefconfig" or "make oldconfig".
> >
> > However, the old compatibility symbols are not visible. Hence unless
> > they are selected by another symbol (which they are not), they can never
> > be enabled, and no backwards compatibility is provided.
> >
> > Fix this by making them visible, and inverting the selection logic.
> > Add comments to make it clear why there are two symbols with the same
> > description.
>
> These symbols were only meant for variants of 'make oldconfig' to pick
> up th enew symbols. They where never for being selected manually.
But that pick-up does not work, unfortunately...
(I know, I had one of them enabled in one of my configs ;-)
The alternative is to just drop the old symbols, and ignore current users.
Which is not that uncommon...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
