Re: Patch for xconfig

[Greg Banks]

G'day,

Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> 
> My customers complain that using certain canned configurations
> xconfig does not work (naturally, it works with defconfig).
> A problem that I am trying to fix is that it can refuse to
> quit with something like "Variable CONSTANT_M does not exist".
> The necessary "global" is indeed missing.
>
> Can someone knowledgeable (like Chastain) have a look at
> the attached patch?

I don't claim to be knowledgeable, but I can confirm that this is a
real bug and the patch fixes it.  Here is the patch re-jigged to apply
cleanly to 2.5.29.

diff -ruN --exclude-from=dontdiff linux-2.5.29-orig/scripts/tkgen.c linux-2.5.29/scripts/tkgen.c
--- linux-2.5.29-orig/scripts/tkgen.c	Sun Jul 28 22:34:05 2002
+++ linux-2.5.29/scripts/tkgen.c	Sun Jul 28 22:32:23 2002
@@ -625,6 +625,7 @@
 		if ( ! vartable[i].global_written )
 		{
 		    global( vartable[i].name );
+		    vartable[i].global_written = 1;
 		}
 		printf( "\t" );
 	    }
@@ -696,6 +697,19 @@
 	    }
 	    break;
 	}
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * Generate global declarations for the dependency chain (e.g. CONSTANT_M).
+     */
+    for ( tmp = cfg->depend; tmp; tmp = tmp->next )
+    {
+       int i = get_varnum( tmp->name );
+       if ( ! vartable[i].global_written )
+       {
+           global( vartable[i].name );
+           vartable[i].global_written = 1;
+       }
     }
 
     /*

Greg.
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