From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756295AbZALTQd (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:16:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753262AbZALTQZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:16:25 -0500 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:60191 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752620AbZALTQY (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:16:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:18:05 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Ben Dooks Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: .config - is the time really necessary Message-ID: <20090112191805.GA14242@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20090112185739.GQ12431@fluff.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090112185739.GQ12431@fluff.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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