Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig

From	Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig
Date	2016-01-18 15:20 +0100
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Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 02:36:09PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
>> My problem was, CONFIG_MICROCODE got dropped silently, and yes that is
>> fixed for me with this patch. But I think this is a little bit odd way
>> to fix it, but I don't have a better idea.
>
> Me neither. The problem is, I need to grep the config that goes into
> the "oldconfig" *before* scripts/kconfig/conf gets a hold of it and
> satisfies deps and thus turns off CONFIG_MICROCODE in the process. 

Wasn't the idea *not* to disable CONFIG_MICROCODE?

> This is a simpler solution short of hacking scripts/kconfig/conf and
> it can be used for other stuff we might need in arch/x86/
>
>> What's with olddefconfig
>
> Yes, I'll update the patch.
>
>> and silentoldconfig ?
>
> This one is funny. Makefile's help says:
>
>   silentoldconfig - Same as oldconfig, but quietly, additionally update deps
>
> and yet doing
>
> $ make silentoldconfig
>
> is not very silent and goes through all new prompts asking me about them.

It asks about new options but doesn't print (as many) unchanged ones.
That makes it more silent.  olddefconfig asks no questions and sets new
options to their defaults.

-- 
Måns Rullgård

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Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during  oldconfig Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de> - 2016-01-18 14:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during  oldconfig Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-01-18 15:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-18 15:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during  oldconfig Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-01-18 15:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during  oldconfig Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-01-18 15:50 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-18 16:00 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during oldconfig Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> - 2016-01-18 16:50 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/kconfig: Sanity-check config file during  oldconfig Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-01-18 16:50 +0100

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