Re: [PATCH 0/19] kconfig patches

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > > Andrew, what might be very interesting for you is that kconfig is not 
> > >  rewriting .config anymore all the time by itself and if you set 
> > >  KCONFIG_NOSILENTUPDATE you can even omit the silent updates, so unless you 
> > >  explicitly call one of the config targets, you can be sure kbuild won't 
> > >  touch your .config symlink anymore and as long as the .config is in sync 
> > >  with the Kconfig files you shouldn't see a difference. I'm very interested 
> > >  how that works for you.
> > 
> > Badly, sorry.  `make oldconfig' blows away the .config symlink.
> 
> I know, that's why I said "unless you explicitly call one of the config 
> targets",

I know that's why you said that ;)

> If you call "make oldconfig", you have to restore the symlink manually.

Why?  What advantage does that have?

I've been using the copy-it-there approach for maybe four years and have
yet to notice any problem with it.