From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
olh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: OVERRIDE: save kernel version in .config file
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:29:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041016212859.GC8765@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040917104334.1b7d7d19.rddunlap@osdl.org>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:43:34AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:20:24 -0700 Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>
> | On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:43:46 +0200 Olaf Hering wrote:
> |
> | | Randy,
> | |
> | | we need a way to turn the timestamp off when running make oldconfig.
> | | Running make oldconfig gives always a delta, even if the .config is
> | | unchanged. This is bad for cvs repos, it generates conflicts now if 2
> | | people work on the same config file.
> | | Please provide a patch to not call ctime if a non-empty enviroment
> | | variable of your choice is set.
> |
> | How's this?
>
> Let's be a little safer in checking "NOTIMESTAMP".
>
> Omit .config file timestamp in the file if the environment variable
> "NOTIMESTAMP" exists and is non-null.
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Applied - but I named it KCONFIG_TIMESTAMP so people would not
think that kbuild suddenly stopped checking timestamps.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-16 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-17 15:43 kconfig: " Olaf Hering
2004-09-17 17:20 ` [PATCH] kconfig: OVERRIDE: " Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-17 17:42 ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-17 17:43 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-16 21:29 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2004-10-16 20:18 ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-16 20:29 ` Olaf Hering
2004-10-16 22:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
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