Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working

[Jeff Garzik]

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
>
>it regenerates .config without the #
>This used to work fine. I guess the new parser
>is a little more strict..
>  
>

well, consider too that '# blah blah' was never really a 
completely-free-to-use namespace, it was considered special due to the 
shell-based parsing that needed to occur.  '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' is 
the classic example of using the '#' space...

    Jeff