From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264877AbUFASOv (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:14:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264965AbUFASOv (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:14:51 -0400 Received: from smtp-out1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.11]:35857 "EHLO smtp-out1.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264877AbUFASOu (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:14:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:14:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.local To: Christoph Hellwig cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RH's noninteractive config patch In-Reply-To: <20040531092044.GA14091@lst.de> Message-ID: References: <20040531092044.GA14091@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Mon, 31 May 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Arjan said you some objections against RH's current noninteractive > config patch? I'd really love to see something like it included > because it greatly helps packagaing the kernel. Patch from their > current RPM is below: conf.c is already heavy overloaded and I'd rather add a separate querytool (which could also answer such burning questions as "what keeps that damn config symbol selected?"). IIRC the RH build first checks, whether the .config is valid, which can basically be done with "make silentoldconfig >& /dev/null" and printing the config symbols can be done with a separate tool. The Kconfig back end is a library to make this as simple as possible. bye, Roman