From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751099AbWDJJmB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:42:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751102AbWDJJmB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:42:01 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:53716 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751099AbWDJJmA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:42:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:41:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/19] kconfig patches Message-Id: <20060410014113.5ba40dd9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20060409235548.52b563a9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060410005153.2a5c19e2.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roman Zippel wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > If you call "make oldconfig", you have to restore the symlink manually. > > > > Why? What advantage does that have? > > > > I've been using the copy-it-there approach for maybe four years and have > > yet to notice any problem with it. > > Pretty much every other tool removes the old file before or after creating > the new file. This allows it to work with a hardlinked tree, which > unfortunately is currently broken for other reasons in kbuild. OK. S_ISLNK? `setenv DONT_BE_IRRITATING 1'? > Could you send me link or a copy of your build tools, which deals with the > symlink? Not sure what you mean really. I use the normal in-tree things, plus the patch in the earlier email.