Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:03:23 +0100 (CET), 
Roman Zippel <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> cat > .force_default <<EOF
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
>> EOF
>> make allmodconfig 
>> 
>> That used to work, until 2.5.48.  Being able to force selected options
>> and have the rest of the options default to all Y or all M was
>> extremely useful.  What a pity that Kconfig removed this facility.
>
>It's not that difficult to reimplement, but it was an undocumented 
>feature

Bullshit.  It was fully documented in kbuild 2.5.  Just because Kai
dropped the docs when he stole bits from kbuild 2.5 does not make
.force_default into an undocumented feature.

>so I'd rather concentrated on the rest and waited until one of a 
>few people who knew about this feature would complain.

People do not know about it because Kai dropped the docs.