Re: [PATCH] save kernel version in .config file

[The Viking <viking@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz>]

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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:38:58 +0200 Paul Rolland wrote:

| Hello,
|
| >
| > Is this interesting to anyone besides me?
| >
| Is it also possible to have this version being displayed during
| a make config/make menuconfig/... so that we know we are reading a
| config file that may have been generated for another kernel version,
| and not yet saved ?
|
| You would have, for make menuconfig :
|
|  Linux Kernel v2.2.13 Configuration, Configuration file version 2.4.20

 >Sure, it's possible.  I just don't want to add the kitchen sink.

 >IOW, I'm not convinced that it's useful most of the time...
 >only a little bit of the time.

My two cents worth:
I'd show it if it differed in kernel version, otherwise not. If this code is 
all relatively self contained, such as all being within the menuconfig/xconfig 
code, then it won't affect the running of the kernel. And yes, it would mean a 
little more code in place, but we're waiting for keyboard strokes in this 
code, or viewing its output. It's not timing-critical.

Sorry I took so long to get to this, but I've only caught up to this point.

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