Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-27 Thread Masahiro Yamada
2018-01-27 8:00 GMT+09:00 Marc Herbert : > Masahiro, > > On 17/01/2018 20:31, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > >> Sorry for my late reply. > > I think we're even now :-) > >>> I'd like to keep that sentence because it's there to explain the legacy and >>> confusing "--silentoldconfig" name which unfortunat

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-26 Thread Marc Herbert
Masahiro, On 17/01/2018 20:31, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > Sorry for my late reply. I think we're even now :-) >> I'd like to keep that sentence because it's there to explain the legacy and >> confusing "--silentoldconfig" name which unfortunately still sticks out in >> the *current* conf.c inter

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-17 Thread Masahiro Yamada
Hi Marc, Sorry for my late reply. 2018-01-13 7:49 GMT+09:00 Marc Herbert : > Masahiro, > > On 09/01/2018 23:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > >> > "(oldconfig used to be more verbose)" > >>The historical background is git. >>If people are interested in archeology, >>they would be able t

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-12 Thread Marc Herbert
Masahiro, On 09/01/2018 23:17, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > "(oldconfig used to be more verbose)" >The historical background is git. >If people are interested in archeology, >they would be able to do it by "git log", "git blame", etc. >We are generally interested in the current

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-09 Thread Masahiro Yamada
2018-01-06 7:21 GMT+09:00 Marc Herbert : > On 04/01/2018 09:21, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> (+CC Michal's new address) >> >> 2017-12-19 10:26 GMT+09:00 Marc Herbert : >>> As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189 >>> silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an in

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-05 Thread Marc Herbert
On 04/01/2018 09:21, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > (+CC Michal's new address) > > 2017-12-19 10:26 GMT+09:00 Marc Herbert : >> As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189 >> silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an internal >> interface and "oldconfig" is just as

Re: [PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-04 Thread Masahiro Yamada
(+CC Michal's new address) 2017-12-19 10:26 GMT+09:00 Marc Herbert : > As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189 > silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an internal > interface and "oldconfig" is just as silent now. Hmm, I'd like to be sure about your int

[PATCH] Remove silentoldconfig from "make help"; fix kconfig/conf's help

2017-12-18 Thread Marc Herbert
As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189 silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an internal interface and "oldconfig" is just as silent now. It's not part of the user interface so remove it from "make help" to stop confusing people trying to use it as seen f