Sept. 3, 2019
1:49 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 10:08:54AM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:42:19 +0300, Anatoly Pugachev said:
is it intentionally that you use
yes "" | make oldconfig
instead of
make olddefconfig
They do something different. 'olddefconfig' just takes the platform or architecture defconfig and updates it for any new CONFIG_* variables added since the last time the defconfig was updated in the tree.
yes "" | make oldconfig does the same updating for new CONFIG_* variables, but starts with the most recent .config - which produces wildly different results if the .config had previously been minimized by 'make localmodconfig' or other similar techniques.
Thanks Valdis, you're the man! Tobin