Re: make oldconfig

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:16:32AM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> > > > Where do the default answers come from ?
> > > 
> > > read Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > 
> > ok, I read about the "default" Kconfig keyword, thank you.
> > still, there are many Kconfig entries that don't have this "default" keyword,
> > and still, when doing 'make oldconfig', the user is presented with a default
> > value to them. where is it from ? or maybe it is always 'N' in this case ?
> 
> There's a whole slew of files throughout the tree for arch defaults.
> 
> find linux-* -name defconfig
> 
> That should get most of them. I assume there's some Kconfig priority 
> system for who overrides whom.

This is wrong, the defconfig's are _not_ used by "make oldconfig".

cu
Adrian

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