From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268849AbUJPUaY (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:30:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268856AbUJPUaX (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:30:23 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47291 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268849AbUJPUaD (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:30:03 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:29:59 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Roman Zippel Cc: Sam Ravnborg , "Randy.Dunlap" , lkml , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: OVERRIDE: save kernel version in .config file Message-ID: <20041016202959.GA26035@suse.de> References: <20040917154346.GA15156@suse.de> <20040917102024.50188756.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20040917104334.1b7d7d19.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20041016212859.GC8765@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 16, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > Applied - but I named it KCONFIG_TIMESTAMP so people would not > > think that kbuild suddenly stopped checking timestamps. > > That reminds me, I'm not really happy with this patch, it's a hack not a > real solution, either we save the timestamp always or not at all, making > it dependent on an environment variable is IMO ugly. The point is: avoid conflicts when 2 people change different parts of the .config. Just drop the whole thing, I doubt the timestamp matters much. -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG