On Saturday 12 November 2005 17:49, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Rob Landley wrote: > > Why did oldconfig switch off CONFIG_MODE_SKAS? It didn't do that before. > > Hmmm... Rummage, rummage... Darn it, it's position dependent. _And_ > > version dependent. > > It's _not_ position dependent, but the behaviour with multiple equal > symbols is undefined.
I just want a minimally expressed config. I've jumped through a number of hoops trying to get "allnoconfig plus these symbols" to work. Setting .config to my symbol list and doing old config prompts a lot, doing yes "" | oldconfig sets lots of crap by default (since not all default values are n), and doing yes "n" | oldconfig goes into an endless loop every time it's prompting for a number or some such. You have to start with allnoconfig. Appending the new symbols and re-running oldconfig worked for a number of versions, until now. Now you have to insert the new symbols at the beginning. I could presumably also work around the new breakage via following allnoconfig with a sed -i invocation to remove the appropriate "# blah is not set" lines before appending the symbols. (Of course it means that the config symbol list has to be fed into a for loop instead of being expressed in the same format as config, which sucks deeply. Insert at the beginning works until it changes again...) > > Ok, now I have to put the new entries at the _beginning_. Appending them > > doesn't work anymore, it now ignores any symbol it's already seen, so you > > can't easily start with allnoconfig, switch on just what you want, and > > expect oldconfig to do anything intelligent. > > Now you can put them in allno.config instead and allnoconfig will do the > right thing. Testing... Ok, that worked. Weird and totally unituitive name for a miniconfig, but oh well. Is this documented anywhere? Rob ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
