From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:35183 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755692Ab0LDVxs (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:53:48 -0500 From: Ben Hutchings In-Reply-To: References: <1290488397.6770.1404.camel@localhost> <20101203122347.GA12395@sepie.suse.cz> <1291482609.8025.57.camel@localhost> <1291487421.8025.69.camel@localhost> <1291496832.8025.79.camel@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-PyaLwll6vix/+SFCkvxl" Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 21:53:42 +0000 Message-ID: <1291499622.8025.83.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Kbuild: kconfig: Verbose version of --listnewconfig Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: Michal Marek , Roman Zippel , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Debian kernel maintainers --=-PyaLwll6vix/+SFCkvxl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 16:14 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote= : > [...] > >> >> I would not expect to see any header if there is no new symbol(s). > >> >> However, that might complicate the code too much. Btw, I find > >> >> "Changes" to be misleading, is that header necessary ? > >> > > >> > We use this feature (or an earlier version of it) in automated kerne= l > >> > builds in Debian, so we expect the output to appear in build logs an= d > >> > the header makes it easier to pick out. > >> > > >> That's easily doable outside kconfig. > > > > No it isn't, as the Kconfig code must be built as part of the > > listnewconfig target. (Building just the code first will provoke > > warnings about the invalid config.) > > > echo "#" > echo "# Changes:" > echo "#" > make [...] listnewconfig >=20 > does the job, without introducing extra header others do not seem to > want to see. Now try that with a clean tree and an outdated config file. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. --=-PyaLwll6vix/+SFCkvxl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUATPq4W+e/yOyVhhEJAQK6zxAA1nrNnSkqv3VtFfVCp0VQ0K9RYYI+tVv1 FVX9TqMFDuPO5JK6rnweI4QZ+q1lMDP+SQNkAU4Eap9U4hFeGOYRTgYQt8syQQt8 hYuGSCZwZCLJrcOVghoROWb0blk3xhKLs8A/lUpkgJQoxmX88XRnSTqUaXFf/rdx lfS+Li6Bylr401Bz9qpYfPUv+OxV/6NHku/GZydANogxTLTr8+InvJU8cVQ6qggT dhq2HC7sdX7n2Kwx6rXL0cbeGePc3RbDeK54eFvXG1/av68Jt7t5mT0SPbOlUmW8 BDYZko72u7DZR+Vfcl9oyUQKRkjwAlq8Y0Z66mFsw9QgmJT6kgyHpvPJ1oiRc0DB qG/VTLVp9WYbDBf1k1bAHXCM6IcrQpFNvI+vuEWZ23Yox6zZ3bIKwT7sBOeVhe9k S/YDT9r6+KNzqdfu+KixOw2YunRmd4VOqDcukM+ZjiXjsaRmYl5vc8LEmvwkTODA by9SInkyMm4KZ4mFAycH6HciYeveDEA7hc69y8z75o/anM0VOmDNaFG9GGapFa4f z1hfBk4WfzmKrQ26pk+jRt8mFYgg774lDNJxppOuDQld+Lbr/FLGGcbp368RNdMm KjtVQ5zKafmEatzTPPM8V4UaixK82YbWdIuwEbNQsIU0bCerjRpSBVuTB8Avk7rn 5pfBXao3tdk= =AB/l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-PyaLwll6vix/+SFCkvxl--