Re: make oldconfig

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:03:16PM +0300, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
> Hi Adrian !
> 
> On 4/6/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:11:24AM +0300, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
> >> When I use 'make oldconfig', all the questions has default answers to 
> >them.
> >> Where do the default answers come from ?
> >
> >read Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> >
> >> Can the feature's author decide what is the default answer ?
> >
> >yes
> >
> >> Or are these actually the answers that come from "make defconfig" ?
> >no
> >
> >> Where all of those default answers stored ?
> >
> >the Kconfig* files
> 
> And where are the default answers that "make defconfig" creates ?

Taken from a default configuration the architecture maintainer provides.

The Location is architecture specific one of the following:
- arch/<arch>/defconfig or
- arch/<arch>/config/$(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG) with $(KBUILD_DEFCONFIG)
  defined in arch/<arch>/Makefile

> Thank You Very much !
> naziir.

cu
Adrian

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