From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750903AbWDJIwh (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:52:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751094AbWDJIwh (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:52:37 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:15559 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750903AbWDJIwg (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:52:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:51:53 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/19] kconfig patches Message-Id: <20060410005153.2a5c19e2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20060409235548.52b563a9.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roman Zippel 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.