Re: [PATCH] save kernel version in .config file

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:07:17 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote:

| On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
|  
| > OK, I've added date, based on Sam's comments, but someone tell me,
| > when/why does filesystem-timestamp not work for this?
| 
| Oh, there may be lots of reasons. The first one which comes to my mind is
| when I archive several config files in a same directory, I rarely think
| about adding '-a' to cp to preserve the dates. And when you're experimenting
| with a kernel and you're at the 20th at the end of the day, the date in the
| config file is often more reliable than yourself to keep track of what you
| have tried.

I see.

| Thanks,
| Willy
| 
| PS: do you think this could be done easily to 2.4 too ?

It's trivial for 'make menuconfig' (bash scripting) [below].
OTOH, I won't look at the tcl/tk 'xconfig' stuff...

--
~Randy



linux-2.4.26

Save kernel version and config file date in config file.

diffstat:=
 scripts/Menuconfig |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff -Naurp ./scripts/Menuconfig~config_version ./scripts/Menuconfig
--- ./scripts/Menuconfig~config_version	2002-08-02 17:39:46.000000000 -0700
+++ ./scripts/Menuconfig	2004-06-18 21:57:47.000000000 -0700
@@ -1275,13 +1275,18 @@ save_configuration () {
 
 	CONFIG=.tmpconfig
 	CONFIG_H=.tmpconfig.h
+	DATTIM=`date`
 
 	echo "#" >$CONFIG
 	echo "# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit" >>$CONFIG
+	echo "# Linux kernel version: $kernel_version" >>$CONFIG
+	echo "# $DATTIM" >>$CONFIG
 	echo "#" >>$CONFIG
 
 	echo "/*" >$CONFIG_H
 	echo " * Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit" >>$CONFIG_H
+	echo " * Linux kernel version: $kernel_version" >>$CONFIG_H
+	echo " * $DATTIM" >>$CONFIG_H
 	echo " */" >>$CONFIG_H
 	echo "#define AUTOCONF_INCLUDED" >> $CONFIG_H