Re: [PATCH 11/19] kconfig: move .kernelrelease

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:57:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > This moves the .kernelrelease file into include/config directory.
> > >  Remove its generation from the config step, if the config step doesn't
> > >  leave a proper .config behind, it triggers a call to silentoldconfig.
> > >  Instead its generation can be done via proper dependencies.
> > 
> > Well that was a pita.  I was using that file in my kernel installation
> > script.
> > 
> > Your changelog says what the patch does, but gives no indication of why it
> > did it.
> > 
> > What do we get back for the breakage which this will cause?
> > 
> > Now I'm going to have to look for both .kernelrelease and
> > include/config/kernel.release and work out which one has the more recent
> > mtime.  grr.
> That you have for not using 'make kernelrelease' - he ;-)
> Did you not know, or did make kernelrelease not do what you expected?
> 

I stopped using `make kernelrelease' when it did something bad when used
from another machine across NFS.

<tries it>

hm, it takes nearly five seconds, but it wasn't that - something actually
broke.  But I forget what it was.  I'll put it back and will wait for it
to reoccur.