Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:16:27 +0100


On Tue, Nov 05 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:08:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > >Can it really be that one cannot edit a config file and run make
> > >oldconfig anymore? I'm used to editing an entry in .config and running
> > >oldconfig to fix things up, now it just reenables the option. That's
> > >clearly a major regression.
> > >
> > It works fine for me :)
> > I don't think I could survive without the tried and true "vi .config ;
> > make oldconfig" kernel configurator :)
>
> Here it seems to work fine if I delete a line completely, but
> if I change
> CONFIG_FOO=y
> to
> #CONFIG_FOO=y

Yeah that works. It will ask me about CONFIG_FOO when I run make
oldconfig, though.

I still think it's a regression, and a very annoying one too.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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