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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kconfig changes for v4.6-rc1
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>> just two kconfig commits this time:
>> - kconfig Makefile fix for make 3.80
>> - Fix calculating symbols so that KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=... does not disable
>>   CONFIG_MODULES silently
>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 6b87b70c5339f30e3c5b32085e69625906513dc2:
>>
>>   unbreak allmodconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=... (2016-02-01 15:12:40 +0100)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Al Viro (1):
>>       unbreak allmodconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=...
>
> I can now indeed drop the
>
>     CONFIG_MODULES=y
>
> line from my
>
>     allmod.config
>
> However, this fix has the side-effect of enabling CONFIG_MODULES silently for
>
>     make allyesconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=1
>
> Adding an explicit
>
>     CONFIG_MODULES=n
>
> to the allyes.config file fixes that.
>
> IMHO CONFIG_MODULES should default to y when using allmodconfig, and
> default to n when using allyesconfig.

Hmm, it seems plain "make allyesconfig" also enables CONFIG_MODULES, and
makes many options modular. Is that intentional, especially the latter?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds