From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .config - is the time really necessary
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:18:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090112191805.GA14242@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090112185739.GQ12431@fluff.org.uk>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:57:39PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
> 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?
From: Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt:
KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------
If this environment variable exists and is non-null, the timestamp line
in generated .config files is omitted.
Sam
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2009-01-12 18:57 Ben Dooks
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