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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: OVERRIDE: save kernel version in .config file
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:29:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041016202959.GA26035@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410162206560.7182@scrub.home>

 On Sat, Oct 16, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > Applied - but I named it KCONFIG_TIMESTAMP so people would not
> > think that kbuild suddenly stopped checking timestamps.
> 
> That reminds me, I'm not really happy with this patch, it's a hack not a 
> real solution, either we save the timestamp always or not at all, making 
> it dependent on an environment variable is IMO ugly.

The point is: avoid conflicts when 2 people change different parts of
the .config.
Just drop the whole thing, I doubt the timestamp matters much.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-16 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-17 15:43 kconfig: save kernel version in .config file Olaf Hering
2004-09-17 17:20 ` [PATCH] kconfig: OVERRIDE: " Randy.Dunlap
2004-09-17 17:42   ` Olaf Hering
2004-09-17 17:43   ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-16 21:29     ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-16 20:18       ` Roman Zippel
2004-10-16 20:29         ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2004-10-16 22:27         ` Sam Ravnborg

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