From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266679AbUJPTgs (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:36:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268799AbUJPTgb (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:36:31 -0400 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:61271 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266679AbUJPT26 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:28:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:29:00 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: lkml , olh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: OVERRIDE: save kernel version in .config file Message-ID: <20041016212859.GC8765@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Randy.Dunlap" , lkml , olh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, sam@ravnborg.org References: <20040917154346.GA15156@suse.de> <20040917102024.50188756.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20040917104334.1b7d7d19.rddunlap@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040917104334.1b7d7d19.rddunlap@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 Applied - but I named it KCONFIG_TIMESTAMP so people would not think that kbuild suddenly stopped checking timestamps. Sam