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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:03:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe 
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Hi,

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Keith Owens wrote:

> cat > .force_default <<EOF
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
> EOF
> make allmodconfig 
> 
> That used to work, until 2.5.48.  Being able to force selected options
> and have the rest of the options default to all Y or all M was
> extremely useful.  What a pity that Kconfig removed this facility.

It's not that difficult to reimplement, but it was an undocumented 
feature, so I'd rather concentrated on the rest and waited until one of a 
few people who knew about this feature would complain.

bye, Roman

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