Re: [kbuild-devel] linux kernel conf 0.6

Kai Germaschewski
2002-09-22T22:46:09Z

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> One cosmetic thing I mentioned to Roman, Config.new needs to be changed
> to something better, like conf.in or build.conf or somesuch.

I agree. (But I'm not particularly good at coming up with names ;)
build.conf is maybe not too bad considering that there may be a day where
it is extended to support "<driver>.conf" as well.

One other thing I wanted to mention but forgot was that lkc now
does a quiet "make oldconfig" when .config changed or does not exist,
which is changed behavior.

I intentionally only printed a message and errored out in this case, and I
think that's more useful, particularly for people doing

make all 2>&1 > make.log

which now may take forever waiting for input.

--Kai