[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel: use oldnoconfig instead of yes '' | make oldconfig

[Hart, Darren]

On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 21:32 +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 19:11, Hart, Darren wrote:
> > 
> > Please check for the functionality, not KERNEL_VERSION. The
> > KERNEL_VERSION doesn't allow for backports and such which might add this
> > ability. Grep the Makefile for the target, for example, if the above OR
> > statement isn't adequate.
> > 
> 
> I guess the OR is perfectly fine then. For whatever reason make
> oldnoconfig fails, we'll fall back to the old behavior.
> 
> > As Bruce stated, it seems that the fix would be to use the updated
> > Kconfig, not default to setting things to NO. The problem with that
> > approach is it doesn't accept defaults for non-specified options (which
> > when updating kernel versions, is often the preferred approach).
> > 
> 
> I think you got it wrong:
>  - I am already using an updated kconfig (I even backported it on the
> older kernel version)
>  - make oldnoconfig is NOT setting things to NO but to the default value
> of the unspecified options (exactly what we need). The choice of the
> name was not wise and It has been renamed olddefconfig since 3.7
> 
> 

I see - you're right, I had misunderstood.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel