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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Then why not just use the old version's kernel config when it's not -r 
on an update?  Then the next time they do make menuconfig (or oldconfig) 
it will have all the proper (NEW) references for the user to check out.  
At least for revision-level updates, the kernel config rarely actually 
changes and so it would be nice to do that.  If it breaks, you would 
have needed to use -r anyways.

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 04:10:05AM -0400, David Michael Leo Brown Jr. wrote:
> 
> >>As was pointed out already ... what's wrong with:
> >>yes '' | make oldconfig
> >>
> >
> >What's to say that the option we just scripted out a yes to breaks the 
> >compile or
> >the user doesn't want it... or maybe they have an incomplete config and 
> >saying yes
> >to everything bloats the kernel to enormous size...
> >
> >I don't think doing this is fair to the user.
> >
> 
> Ooopsie didn't read that quite right... the yes "" | would make oldconfig 
> accept 
> the defaults for any options that aren't present in the config file... 
> 
> But I still don't like cutting the user out of creating the config file
> 
> - David Brown
> 
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