Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761991AbXEPBjz (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 21:39:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760886AbXEPBjs (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 21:39:48 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:33609 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759688AbXEPBjr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 21:39:47 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fo88EYhQrKCxxU+as1X1C4QSV7XPp9cOMtZW10qaVA3vCP+e5XK5DP/COaHJ40xmquwKnVIReap0AHFHWFc06cWjyhXfXAcM5yAE11hmajnZ/nI1z1jcYs91pltA6Xj8dsO3KmRIzTaC6vwqijr4LJfHAV4lUt9PSsAQ+nwgpKg= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:09:46 +0530 From: "Satyam Sharma" To: "Tilman Schmidt" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" , LKML , "Stefan Richter" In-Reply-To: <46498EE3.8010907@imap.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4647569D.7010709@imap.cc> <4648A3DF.7040004@imap.cc> <46498EE3.8010907@imap.cc> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1501 Lines: 29 On 5/15/07, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > [...] > > I do agree that anything non-essential (even if it's just a presentation > > menu that doesn't affect builds) must be default n. > > It's tricky for "make oldconfig" when introducing a new "menuconfig" > around some previously existing "config"s, because just accepting > the default for the new option then causes previously selected > ones to be silently dropped. But I don't know a perfect solution > for that. Perhaps we'll just have to live with it. Or perhaps a > warning message along the line of "deselecting option xxx" would > be in order. > [...] > It's actually the other way around, all those options now tucked > underneath the menuconfig were previously directly visible, so > selecting "y" (either explicitly or by default) makes everything > work as before while "n" very conveniently skips them all. Jan did mention this in the previous thread, but as Jens said, these problems would occur only the _first_ time someone transitions from the old .config's to the new scheme. But those "default y"s for all the various "configmenu"s (let's please call them that) that got introduced in the Kconfig files would cause unnecessary annoyance to users of make oldconfig _for ever_. - 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/