On Oct 12 2007 14:49, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Allow config variables in .config to override earlier ones in the same >> file. In other words, >> >> # CONFIG_SECURITY is not defined >> CONFIG_SECURITY=y >> >> will activate it. This makes it a bit easier to do >> >> (cat original-config myconfig myconfig2 ... >.config) >> >> and run menuconfig as expected. > > This is a feature that we want IMO, but I already do this without having > a patch for it (although to a lesser degree than full config files; > I just cat a few entries to the end of a config file then run oldconfig)... > so are there some cases where it works and some cases > where it doesn't work? Do you know what those cases are?
$ echo "CONFIG_CRC7=m" >>../obj-2.6.23/.config $ make O=/ws/linux/obj-2.6.23 menuconfig GEN /ws/linux/obj-2.6.23/Makefile scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig .config:3669:warning: trying to reassign symbol CRC7 (Just save+exit) $ grep CONFIG_CRC7 ../obj-2.6.23/.config # CONFIG_CRC7 is not set - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/