[RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:20:36PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> > kconfig already spits out warnings for symbols being selected that
>> > don't exist.
>>
>> Does it? Since when does it do that? Or do you mean select in a more
>> general way (not just meaning Kconfig's "select" statement)?
>
> I believe Alan was more correct than me when he said it was 'make
> oldconfig' that produced the warnings.

Indeed, no warnings for all these remaining "select MISC_DEVICES"
(patch sent to remove these).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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