From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] Documentation: mention scripts/diffconfig tool
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:37:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F76196E.6010707@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F761580.3020807@xenotime.net>
From: "Javi Merino" <javi.merino@arm.com>
Documentation: Mention scripts/diffconfig as a tool to compare config files
The kconfig documentation suggests using plain 'diff' to compare
config files and then adds "Yes, we need something better here".
"a717417 kconfig: add diffconfig utility" added what that comment was
looking for.
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
---
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- lnx-33.orig/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ lnx-33/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -28,12 +28,10 @@ new (default) values, so you can use:
grep "(NEW)" conf.new
-to see the new config symbols or you can 'diff' the previous and
-new .config files to see the differences:
+to see the new config symbols or you can use diffconfig to see the
+differences between the previous and new .config files:
- diff .config.old .config | less
-
-(Yes, we need something better here.)
+ scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less
______________________________________________________________________
Environment variables for '*config'
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2012-03-30 20:37 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 3/8] Documentation: sysrq: Crutcher Dunnavant is unavailable Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 23:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 4/8] Documentation: CodingStyle: add inline assembly guidelines Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 5/8] Documentation: input.txt: clarify mousedev 'cat' command syntax Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 6/8] Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 7/8] Documentation: replace install commands with softdeps Randy Dunlap
2012-03-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 8/8] Documentation: fix typo in ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc Randy Dunlap
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