From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751128AbWDJKnD (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:43:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751132AbWDJKnC (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:43:02 -0400 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:17683 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751128AbWDJKnB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:43:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:42:50 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Andrew Morton Cc: Roman Zippel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] kconfig: move .kernelrelease Message-ID: <20060410104250.GA24160@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <20060410015727.69b5c1f6.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060410015727.69b5c1f6.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:57:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. That you have for not using 'make kernelrelease' - he ;-) Did you not know, or did make kernelrelease not do what you expected? Sam