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To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] (no subject)
From: Christian Limpach <christian.limpach@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:09:48 +0100
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On 9/19/05, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
<dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 06:43 -0700, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort
> > Collins) wrote:
> >
> > > +ifeq ($(ARCH),ia64)
> > > +       yes "" | $(MAKE) -C $(LINUX_DIR) oldconfig
> > > +else
> >
> > Why are you piping in tons of nothing into Make here using the "yes"
> > command?
> 
> This mechanically does the same as manually hitting
> "enter" at every prompt from "make oldconfig", thus it
> applies the default response for every unconfigured
> option without manual intervention.

I think it's preferable to have default config files which don't cause
any prompting.

Also if people upgrade, they probably want to be prompted on any new
options.  If not, then let's get the default behaviour for "make
oldconfig" changed upstream...

    christian

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