From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] kconfig: move .kernelrelease
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:42:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060410104250.GA24160@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060410015727.69b5c1f6.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:57:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> 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.
That you have for not using 'make kernelrelease' - he ;-)
Did you not know, or did make kernelrelease not do what you expected?
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-10 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-09 15:29 [PATCH 11/19] kconfig: move .kernelrelease Roman Zippel
2006-04-10 8:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-10 10:42 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-04-10 9:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-10 10:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-10 13:29 ` Roman Zippel
2006-04-10 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-12 13:23 ` Roman Zippel
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