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Date:   Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:36:51 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To:     Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wei=DFschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] selftests/nolibc: generate config automatically
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 02:34:00PM +0200, Thomas Wei?schuh wrote:
> This new target generates a .config if none exists yet.
> 
> Also drop the defconfig target with its hidden call to 'mrproper' which
> is fairly invasive.
> If users want to overwrite their kernel existing kernel configuration
> they can do so easily from the toplevel directory.

Hmmm I'm not sure about that one, I pretty much remember seeing failing
arm64 builds when mrproper and prepare were missing.

I would argue that someone starting "make defconfig" does expect the
config to be dropped, hence mrproper to be called as well.

What specific issue did you face with it ? Maybe we can restrict it to
only a few cases ?

Willy