Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757678Ab0G2Oom (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:44:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:63058 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754214Ab0G2Ook (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:44:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:47:49 -0400 From: Aristeu Rozanski To: Michal Marek Cc: Sam Ravnborg , lkml , linux-kbuild , Stephen Rothwell , Roman Zippel , Uwe Kleine-Koig , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kconfig: use long options in conf Message-ID: <20100729144748.GI6249@redhat.com> References: <20100725213808.GA5814@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20100725214021.GD5834@merkur.ravnborg.org> <4C4EFE80.7050808@suse.cz> <20100728203622.GA32086@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20100729081316.GA4990@merkur.ravnborg.org> <4C5148A5.10809@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C5148A5.10809@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1730 Lines: 43 On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:23:49AM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > On 29.7.2010 10:13, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:36:22PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >> Hi Michal. > >> > >> I cooked up the following to introduce long options in conf. > >> But in the process I dropped the short options. Is this OK? > > > > On top of this patch I did another two. > > They fixup the *nonint_oldconfig targets: > > > > nonint_oldconfig: > > - renamed to listnewconfig > > - print new options to stdout (to better support redirect) > > - no longer saves a new configuration > > - does ot exist with a failure code if there is new options but this kills its usefulness. nonint_oldconfig is used so you can script the use of a generated configuration (think distro kernel RPMs). if something is not set, it fails listing what's not set. otherwise it'll save the configuration and whatever script is using it can proceed. "listnewconfig" is a new, different target to me. > > loose_noninit_oldconfig: > > - renamed to oldnoconfig > > - does ot exist with a failure code if there is new options > > > > This is a lot cleaner and much more sensible names. > > And they still support the suecase where they > > list new options and can set them to n per default. > > I do not object, these new targets are only in the kbuild tree atm, so > users are not relying on them yet. And the new names indeed describe > better what they do. Aristeu? oldnoconfig is fine to me. -- Aristeu -- 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/