This part of kconfig is taken care of by Roman Zippel.
Kept the full mail for his reference.
Sam
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:17:32PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> Allow config variables in .config to override earlier ones in the same
> file. In other words,
>
> # CONFIG_SECURITY is not defined
> CONFIG_SECURITY=y
>
> will activate it. This makes it a bit easier to do
>
> (cat original-config myconfig myconfig2 ... >.config)
>
> and run menuconfig as expected.
>
> Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/81
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> confdata.c | 14 +++++---------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> @@ -170,8 +170,7 @@ load:
> sym->type = S_BOOLEAN;
> }
> if (sym->flags & def_flags) {
> - conf_warning("trying to reassign symbol %s",
> sym->name);
> - break;
> + conf_warning("override: reassigning to symbol
> %s", sym->name);
> }
> switch (sym->type) {
> case S_BOOLEAN:
> @@ -210,8 +209,7 @@ load:
> sym->type = S_OTHER;
> }
> if (sym->flags & def_flags) {
> - conf_warning("trying to reassign symbol %s",
> sym->name);
> - break;
> + conf_warning("override: reassigning to symbol
> %s", sym->name);
> }
> switch (sym->type) {
> case S_TRISTATE:
> @@ -288,11 +286,9 @@ load:
> }
> break;
> case yes:
> - if (cs->def[def].tri != no) {
> - conf_warning("%s creates inconsistent
> choice state", sym->name);
> - cs->flags &= ~def_flags;
> - } else
> - cs->def[def].val = sym;
> + if(cs->def[def].tri != no)
> + conf_warning("override: %s turns state
> choice", sym->name);
> + cs->def[def].val = sym;
> break;
> }
> cs->def[def].tri = E_OR(cs->def[def].tri,
> sym->def[def].tri);
> #<EOF>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
