Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:12:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:12:08 -0500 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.2]:18450 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:11:58 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:03:23 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:19:00 +1100 Message-ID: <12497.1038399540@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 31 On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:03:23 +0100 (CET), Roman Zippel wrote: >On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Keith Owens wrote: > >> cat > .force_default <> 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 Bullshit. It was fully documented in kbuild 2.5. Just because Kai dropped the docs when he stole bits from kbuild 2.5 does not make .force_default into 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. People do not know about it because Kai dropped the docs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/