Peter Kjellerstedt at axis.com writes:

Hello,

the attached patch should bring extra/config in line
with the Linux 2.6.7 sources.

The following are the commit messages for the respective
files from the Linux bk-repository:

checklist.c:
* fix menuconfig choice item help display

confdata.c:
* config: choice fix
* kconfig: don't rename target dir when saving config

expr.c, expr.h:
* config: disable debug prints

mconf.c:
* fix menuconfig choice item help display

menu.c:
* Kconfig: use select statements

symbol.c:
* config: choice fix
* Avoid bogus warning about recursive dependencies
* c99 struct initialiser conversions

textbox.c:
* janitor: don't init statics to 0

util.c:
* fix lxdialog behaviour

//Peter
diff --git a/scripts/config/util.c b/scripts/config/util.c
index 104ff0e..0a2f827 100644
--- a/scripts/config/util.c
+++ b/scripts/config/util.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
 		c = tolower(string[i]);
 
 		if (strchr("<[(", c)) ++in_paren;
-		if (strchr(">])", c)) --in_paren;
+		if (strchr(">])", c) && in_paren > 0) --in_paren;
 
 		if ((! in_paren) && isalpha(c) &&
 		     strchr(exempt, c) == 0)