Hi,

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:33 PM, David Woodhouse [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 10:34 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

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your point being ? I might as well tell you that I find the current
behavior of 'all*.config' just as broken wrt. to dependency
management.

You might indeed. And I would find that commentary just as irrelevant
and unhelpful.

you are free to do so.

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If you have nothing relevant to say, just don't say anything.

maybe you can come with a detailed description of your proposal's
behavior, including how to manage case like this, instead of just
throwing patch around ?

How's this for a definition:

"The behaviour for unsettable (or unclearable) options shall be exactly
like it already is if you put them in all*.config, or if you manually
edit the .config file and run 'make oldconfig', as people have been
doing for years. There is nothing new to see here."

Then I would say it is plain broken, especially if widespread.

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If I do:

# make CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y allnoconfig

I expect either a success or an error, not a silent discard. And
*yes*, the problem already exists with "all*.config".

[dwmw2@i7 linux-2.6]$ make CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y allnoconfig
scripts/kconfig/conf --allnoconfig Kconfig
#
# Could not set CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y; perhaps it has unmet dependencies?
#
#
# configuration written to .config
#

Exactly my point, you just successfully created an half-backed config
which is different than what Aunt Tillie wanted you to generate. This
should be an hard error, same for "all*.config", not to mention that
the error message is far from being helpful.

 - Arnaud