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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working
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Dear diary, on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:30:04PM CET, I got a letter,
where Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> told me, that...
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:14:31PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > I'll write the script, just a damn shame that this feature is gone now.
> > .config editing is less powerful now.
> The following patch should make most garbage, such as =n, result in
> # CONFIG_FOO is not set
> without any user confirmation.

I don't think this is actually a good idea. We break forward compatibility with
this (possibly, in future we will want to add something like "yes" or you don't
know what..), and then you will still get "no" for no obvious reason - asking
is much saner approach here, IMHO. If we didn't understand it, assuming 'no' is
not a safe way, I believe.

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