From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756079AbZALS5v (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:57:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753367AbZALS5n (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:57:43 -0500 Received: from aeryn.fluff.org.uk ([87.194.8.8]:44676 "EHLO kira.home.fluff.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753265AbZALS5m (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:57:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:57:39 +0000 From: Ben Dooks To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: .config - is the time really necessary Message-ID: <20090112185739.GQ12431@fluff.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Disclaimer: These are my own opinions, so there! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Line 3 of the .config files has the current date in it. Is this information of any use to anyone? It makes life difficult when producing series of patches that touches a defconfig, as you end up with conflicts if you go back and change/remove/add one to the series. Would people object to the time/date being removed from the .config file? -- Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'