Bug 3428 - make menuconfig generates wrong .config
Summary: make menuconfig generates wrong .config
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alan Cox
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-06-13 12:14 UTC by p929001
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-06-16 16:38:22 UTC
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Description p929001 1999-06-13 12:14:27 UTC 
Using 'make menuconfig' generates a .config file that has a
wrong entry. If one deselects the MSDOS file system
(CONFIG_MSDOS_FS), the option for UMSDOS (CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS)
is not shown (which is of course OK). However, in the
.config generated, the entries are

# CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=y

- which of course generates an error when compiling the
kernel.
Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-06-14 17:48:59 UTC 
Confirmed in test lab.  make xconfig does not have same problem.
Comment 2 Alan Cox 1999-06-16 16:38:59 UTC 
We know. Its basically unfixable without a major rewrite of the config
handling. That is being worked on for 2.3/2.4

Alan
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