What's the exact difference between make silentoldconfig and oldconfig?
Hi, The man help says, silentoldconfig is like oldconfig, but quietly and additionally updates dependencies. 1. What does it mean by "quietly"? 2. What dependency that silentoldconfig updates but oldconfig does not? Looking at http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/scripts/kconfig/conf.c#... seems there must be some logic difference between oldconfig and silentoldconfig, but currently it's a mess for me and can't tell the difference. -- Best, Shiyao
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:26:52 +0800, Shiyao MA said:
Hi,
The man help says, silentoldconfig is like oldconfig, but quietly and additionally updates dependencies.
1. What does it mean by "quietly"?
Basically, it will auto-select the "default" answer to any question (it's the one that's capitalized - so if it says n/Y/? Yes is the default) As such, it's basically 'oldconfig, if somebody held the Enter key down'.
As such, it's basically 'oldconfig, if somebody held the Enter key down'.
silentoldconfig is also *interactive* as it waits the user to press the enter key, or specify other choices than the default one. this behavior is exactly how the make oldconfig does. On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:03 AM, <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:26:52 +0800, Shiyao MA said:
Hi,
The man help says, silentoldconfig is like oldconfig, but quietly and additionally updates dependencies.
1. What does it mean by "quietly"?
Basically, it will auto-select the "default" answer to any question (it's the one that's capitalized - so if it says n/Y/? Yes is the default)
As such, it's basically 'oldconfig, if somebody held the Enter key down'.
-- Best, Shiyao
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