On Tuesday 2008-05-06 05:08, Roman Zippel wrote:
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>I strongly disagree with this, please preserve the old behaviour. It took 
>a while to work out the current behaviour.
>Only silentoldconfig checks for stdin because it's used as hook during 
>kbuild to verify the config. For all other interactive targets the user 
>has to know what he's doing, e.g. it's valid to do "yes '' | make 
>oldconfig".

Noting that `yes | make oldconfig` is often not the right thing anyway
(you want modules most of the time) or does not even work (things
that can only be modules [M/n] cannot take y).

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