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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:21:32 +0200
From: Valentin Rothberg <vrothberg@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] is Kconfig a bit hard sometimes?
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On Jul 10 '17 11:28, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Alexandre Belloni
> <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> >
> > I know the yes trick works for kernels older than 3.7 but maybe people
> > should start using make olddefconfig ;)
> 
> Honestly, I wish more people just ran "oldconfig" and then started
> complaining about people adding insane Kconfig options.

If you want, we could add a "--diff-options" to checkkconfigsymbols.py.
It runs reasonably fast and would also report options outside the
current architecture.

Kind regards,
 Valentin