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authorRegid Ichira <regid23@nt1.in>2013-09-11 20:35:48 -0400
committerYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>2013-10-08 17:51:50 -0400
commit560909d433109e3da08757237f30576c71697914 (patch)
treeb187271ab45acac6e8f734893f517dad09e341a2 /Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
parent86eb781889ec31f6421b86ab252ea609d456322d (diff)
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt: 'make listnewconfig' replaces: yes "" | make oldconfig
Signed-off-by: Regid Ichira <regid23@nt1.in> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> [yann.morin.1998@free.fr: fix trailing whitespace, commit subject] Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
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@@ -20,16 +20,9 @@ symbols have been introduced.
20To see a list of new config symbols when using "make oldconfig", use 20To see a list of new config symbols when using "make oldconfig", use
21 21
22 cp user/some/old.config .config 22 cp user/some/old.config .config
23 yes "" | make oldconfig >conf.new 23 make listnewconfig
24 24
25and the config program will list as (NEW) any new symbols that have 25and the config program will list any new symbols, one per line.
26unknown values. Of course, the .config file is also updated with
27new (default) values, so you can use:
28
29 grep "(NEW)" conf.new
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31to see the new config symbols or you can use diffconfig to see the
32differences between the previous and new .config files:
33 26
34 scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less 27 scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less
35 28