From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51720 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751696Ab0IMOyP (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:54:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4C8E3B15.2040807@suse.cz> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:54:13 +0200 From: Michal Marek MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Kconfig add reportoldconfig and updateoldconfig targets References: <20100913143830.GK2919@stro.at> In-Reply-To: <20100913143830.GK2919@stro.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: maximilian attems Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Bastian Blank , Ben Hutchings On 13.9.2010 16:38, maximilian attems wrote: > From: Bastian Blank > > This patch has been around for a looong time in Debian kernels > and might be useful for others. The reportoldconfig target > is used for the official linux-2.6 image builds. It outputs > to the build log the changed configs and sets any unset to > it's default. 2.6.26-rc1 has listnewconfig and oldnoconfig, which do more or less the same. And I think we have enough *config targets already, so unless there is a problem that is hard to solve with the current kconfig plus some scripting (*), I'd vote for not adding further special-purpose *config targets. (*) Such as the defconfig cleanup that took hours with a brute-force python script, but was easily achieved by a patch that added the savedefconfig target. Michal