From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266890AbUHIUH2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:07:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267182AbUHIUDw (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:03:52 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:38826 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266879AbUHIUAB (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:00:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4117D88E.6080801@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:03:26 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: lkml , sam@ravnborg.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] save kernel version in .config file References: <20040803225753.15220897.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040803225753.15220897.rddunlap@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy.Dunlap wrote: > (from June/2004 email thread: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108753573200001&r=1&w=2 > ) > > Several people found this useful, none opposed (afaik). > > Saves kernel version in .config file, e.g.: > > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.8-rc3 > # Tue Aug 3 22:55:57 2004 > # > > Please merge. > --- > > Save kernel version info and date when writing .config file. > Tested with 'make {menuconfig|xconfig|gconfig}'. I don't see "oldconfig" here, I'm sure there are people who don't care because they want to roll every kernel fresh, but for the rest of us... > > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me