From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268848AbUJPU11 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:27:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268849AbUJPU11 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:27:27 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:30756 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268848AbUJPU1Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:27:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:27:27 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Roman Zippel Cc: Sam Ravnborg , "Randy.Dunlap" , lkml , olh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: OVERRIDE: save kernel version in .config file Message-ID: <20041016222727.GG8765@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Roman Zippel , Sam Ravnborg , "Randy.Dunlap" , lkml , olh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org References: <20040917154346.GA15156@suse.de> <20040917102024.50188756.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20040917104334.1b7d7d19.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20041016212859.GC8765@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:18:35PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > Applied - but I named it KCONFIG_TIMESTAMP so people would not > > think that kbuild suddenly stopped checking timestamps. > > That reminds me, I'm not really happy with this patch, it's a hack not a > real solution, either we save the timestamp always or not at all, making > it dependent on an environment variable is IMO ugly. > I have a patch which does some tighter checking during config loading, > which can be used whether it's needed to write the config. Other front > ends could use this as well (e.g. xconfig right now always ask to save > the config). The better approach for sure. When we have this in place I will delete the KCONFIG_NOTIMESTMAP hack. Sam