Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:42:34 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] kbuild: add automatic updateconfig target
Message-ID: <20060118204234.GC14340@mars.ravnborg.org>
References: <20060118194056.GA26532@nancy>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:40:56PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> From: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
> 
> current hack for daily build linux-2.6-git is quite ugly: 
> yes "n" | make oldconfig
> 
> belows target helps to build git snapshots in a more automated way,
> setting the new options to their default.

Please always add Roman Zippel when dealing with kconfig changes.
We had a similar though more advanced proposal named miniconfig a month
or so ago but Roman had some grief with it so it was not applied.

I've let Roman decide on this one too.
Nitpicking below.

	Sam
	

> +updateconfig: $(obj)/conf
> +	$< -U arch/$(ARCH)/Kconfig

The other methods uses small letters so please change to '-u'

> -	set_random
> +	set_random,
> +	update_default,

Keep same naming as the others. May I suggest set_default.

You did not introduce a specific update.config file like for the other
targets. Any reason for that?

	Sam
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