On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 10:59 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > > It looks like it's ~4 years since we updated some of these, so do a bulk > > update. > > > > Verified that the before and after generated configs are exactly the > > same. > > Yep, that's guaranteed by the tool (modulo bugs). > > > Which begs the question why update them? The answer is that it can be > > confusing when the stored defconfig drifts too far from the generated > > result. > > And it becomes hard to update them, e.g. for enabling or disabling a single > option. > > Now the big question is: do they still work? > Plainly ignoring any bugs introduced in the code, there are probably several > "select" statements that have been removed. 4 years ago, they automatically > selected some critical options, while now, they're no longer selected, causing > breakage.
Yeah true. So far no one has yelled at me, so perhaps we got lucky :) cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
