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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working
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On Tuesday 05 November 2002 17:26, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:14, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > axboe@burns:[.]linux-2.5-deadline-rbtree $ grep CONFIG_NFSD_V4 <
> > > .config 641:CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y
> > > axboe@burns:[.]linux-2.5-deadline-rbtree $ vi .config
> > > axboe@burns:[.]linux-2.5-deadline-rbtree $ grep CONFIG_NFSD_V4 <
> > > .config 641:CONFIG_NFSD_V4=n
> >
> > =n never worked...
>
> You're wrong, it's always worked. I've never used anything but that.
>
> > # CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set
>
> Come on, you really expect me to type the whole damn thing? That's
> silly.

Some of the #ifdef cases simply test whether the config option is defined.  
(Lots of #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_BLAH type stuff.)  Setting them to no counts as 
defining them, so it thinks it's a y.  (I remember cml2 hit that way back...)

Obviously, CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not one of them...

Rob

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