From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751107AbWDJJ6L (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:58:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751108AbWDJJ6L (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:58:11 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:22488 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751107AbWDJJ6K (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:58:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:57:27 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] kconfig: move .kernelrelease Message-Id: <20060410015727.69b5c1f6.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: 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: > > This moves the .kernelrelease file into include/config directory. > Remove its generation from the config step, if the config step doesn't > leave a proper .config behind, it triggers a call to silentoldconfig. > Instead its generation can be done via proper dependencies. Well that was a pita. I was using that file in my kernel installation script. Your changelog says what the patch does, but gives no indication of why it did it. What do we get back for the breakage which this will cause? Now I'm going to have to look for both .kernelrelease and include/config/kernel.release and work out which one has the more recent mtime. grr.