Re: Additional kconfig targets (cloneconfig, nonint_oldconfig etc)

["SL Baur" <steve@xemacs.org>]

On 4/30/08, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:45:57 -0700 SL Baur wrote:

>  > Is there any reasonable way to embed the configuration file name in the kernel
>  > image like BSD does it?  /proc/config.gz is a good way to retrieve way to
>  > retrieve configuration information on a running system, not so good for pushing
>  > kernels out to a network and keeping track of the config files on the build
>  > machine.
>
>
> I don't know how BSD does it, but CONFIG_IKCONFIG does embed the
>  config image in the kernel.  It can be extracted with
>  scripts/extract-ikconfig.

No, that's not what I meant.  Now that we have a means of specifying
a configuration file by name, it would be nice if the file name could,
for example, be appended to EXTRAVERSION.  That's all it would
take to duplicate the behavior I misdescribed.


Eg. `make K=HPxw4300.config ...' would have "-HPxw4300" appended
to EXTRAVERSION.  Maybe this doesn't make sense any more, but it
was once something I wanted very much.

-sb