Kconfig debug help

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, John Linn wrote:
> Thanks Josh, I just came to the conclusion it was busted somehow in the
> mainline after repeating it there.

It was fixed in mainline by
commit 22127f246dc37ed5bea0915f7860002ba6d87da7
Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 4 22:18:07 2008 +0200

    kconfig: always write out .config
    
    Always write out .config also in the case where config
    did not change.
    This fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11230

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Josh Boyer [mailto:jwboyer at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Josh Boyer
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:49 PM
> > To: John Linn
> > Cc: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> > Subject: Re: Kconfig debug help
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:37 -0600, John Linn wrote:
> > > I'm trying to debug some Kconfig problems and am looking for a way
> to
> > > get more debug output.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have used KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 on the command line and it didn't help
> > > much.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm seeing an issue with creating a new defconfig file for a board.
> I
> > > get the .config created, then copy it to a defconfig, and then it
> > > doesn't do anything when I run make with the defconfig file.
> > 
> > Yeah, I hit that myself this weekend.  It's a bug in the Kconfig area.
> > It's 1/2 fixed in the latest Linus and powerpc trees.

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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