From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755503AbYDWWoA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:44:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751808AbYDWWnx (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:43:53 -0400 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.181]:23501 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751526AbYDWWnw (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:43:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gCB81SKMVTVEJmNhmzPfO3ACkI3bShoIfqjrEN3hRRdXUuXcGDkpQVv5MwfV/JB8jxSZ3tdt2AkgzHYbqnYP0ujFykYKys7R8Y85F44/MFcRqBkXlojgFocOrJOBUIltOQqloiqd8XZa6bXECgUN4PIiQspTEOWQonq5zmXUL4M= Message-ID: <9a8748490804231543h1203ff59i466e1ea9c02af0f2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:43:51 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "devzero@web.de" Subject: Re: make cloneconfig ? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agruen@suse.de In-Reply-To: <251459002@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <251459002@web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 24/04/2008, 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 " Makefile rule? What would actually be gained? -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html