From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "devzero@web.de" <devzero@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agruen@suse.de
Subject: Re: make cloneconfig ?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:43:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490804231543h1203ff59i466e1ea9c02af0f2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <251459002@web.de>
On 24/04/2008, devzero@web.de <devzero@web.de> wrote:
> any reason why "make cloneconfig" never made it into mainline?
>
> many people are quite used to it and every time i build vanilla kernel i step into that trap "oh - that`s a suse`ism"
>
> make cloneconfig exists since /proc/config.gz - but while that one went into mainline, cloneconfig never did.
>
> anyone know the reason for that ?
>
> i wished, distros kernels were more similar to vanilla kernels - so what about making them more similar ?
>
>
Isn't "cloneconfig" basically just "zcat /proc/config.gz > .config &&
make oldconfig" ??? If so, why do we need yet another "make
<some_target>" Makefile rule? What would actually be gained?
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Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-23 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 22:37 devzero
2008-04-23 22:43 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2008-04-24 7:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-24 7:00 devzero
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