On 04/21/2011 07:08 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
make ARCH=arm defconfig cat arch/arm/configs/omap4_defconfig>>.config make ARCH=arm oldnoconfig
make omap4_defconfig
Wow that is a lot simpler... if you know it.
When trying to figure this out I googled the original patch that added the savedefconfig and it doesn't mention this Makefile magic; I guess it was added later.
In the meanwhile, I guess I learned something about conifg merging by hand.
-Andy