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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Andrew Rodland <arodland@noln.com>:
> I found it!
> The culprit: a bit of confusion over 'private'.
> All of the not-saved symbols were just guards for 'do we
>  want to display question X'... so they were marked
>  private, so as not to clutter up the kernel (I assume).
>  However, this prevents them from getting written to
>  .config/config.out as well! Easy fix is to un-private
>  them, long-term is (as I see it) either to create a new
>  equivalent to private that somehow lets the symbol get
>  written to defconfig, but prevents it from becoming a
>  kernel define, or just to blow it off and don't worry
>  about it, and leave them normal symbols. However, it's
>  1:30AM and I might be missing something.

I think the right thing will be to write private symbols into config.out,
but with an attached PRIVATE label that stops configtrans.py from 
translating these into defines for the autoconf.h file.

That's what I've done for the upcoming CML 2.0.0 release.
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