RE: [Xen-devel] (no subject)

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

> > > Why are you piping in tons of nothing into Make here 
> using the "yes"
> > > command?
> > 
> > This mechanically does the same as manually hitting
> > "enter" at every prompt from "make oldconfig", thus it
> > applies the default response for every unconfigured
> > option without manual intervention.
> 
> I think it's preferable to have default config files which don't cause
> any prompting.
> 
> Also if people upgrade, they probably want to be prompted on any new
> options.  If not, then let's get the default behaviour for "make
> oldconfig" changed upstream...

I've just used this for convenience.  The defconfigs in
Linux/ia64 cause prompting and the config change required for
Xen/ia64 support (because it is transparently paravirtualized)
is adding "CONFIG_XEN=y".  But I can easily put the output
of make oldconfig in the xen defconfig file if the
preference is to have no prompting (thus the "yes" pipe
is removed from the previously posted patch).

Thanks,
Dan

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