From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761423Ab2C3UhI (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:37:08 -0400 Received: from oproxy6-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.54.6]:47917 "HELO oproxy6-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1760698Ab2C3UhF (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:37:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4F76196E.6010707@xenotime.net> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:37:02 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: LKML , Javi Merino , Michal Marek Subject: [PATCH 2/8] Documentation: mention scripts/diffconfig tool References: <4F761580.3020807@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <4F761580.3020807@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Javi Merino" 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 Cc: Michal Marek --- 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'