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

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

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?

	Sam