From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:65487 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764217AbYD3Ucw (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:32:52 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so536872waf.23 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:32:52 -0700 From: "SL Baur" Subject: Re: Additional kconfig targets (cloneconfig, nonint_oldconfig etc) In-Reply-To: <20080430080134.60346a12.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080429183531.GB19652@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080429172402.14d7d40b@ephemeral> <20080430080134.60346a12.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Andres Salomon , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kbuild , LKML , Dave Jones , Roland McGrath On 4/30/08, Randy Dunlap 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