Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Nov 05 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:08:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>  > >Can it really be that one cannot edit a config file and run make
>  > >oldconfig anymore? I'm used to editing an entry in .config and running
>  > >oldconfig to fix things up, now it just reenables the option. That's
>  > >clearly a major regression.
>  > > 
>  > It works fine for me :)
>  > I don't think I could survive without the tried and true "vi .config ; 
>  > make oldconfig" kernel configurator :)
> 
> Here it seems to work fine if I delete a line completely, but
> if I change
> CONFIG_FOO=y
> to
> #CONFIG_FOO=y

Yeah that works. It will ask me about CONFIG_FOO when I run make
oldconfig, though.

I still think it's a regression, and a very annoying one too.

-- 
Jens Axboe