On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 17:56 -0700, David Miller wrote:

From: Stephen Rothwell <redacted>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:50:02 +1000

quoted

Which is a bit of a pain for automated systems.  Ours does (essentially):

yes '' | make oldconfig

We really don't want to select every new config item that comes along.

If you're indeed piping "yes" output to "make oldconfig" on an
existing config, it would select the new guards for you.

[....]

If you were to use just "yes", then of course it would.  But since there
is no explicit default, "yes ''" will deselect them.

Maybe these guards should have "default y"?

Ben.

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