Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:58:51 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 11/19] kconfig: move .kernelrelease |
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Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:57:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > > > > > > This moves the .kernelrelease file into include/config directory. > > > Remove its generation from the config step, if the config step doesn't > > > leave a proper .config behind, it triggers a call to silentoldconfig. > > > Instead its generation can be done via proper dependencies. > > > > Well that was a pita. I was using that file in my kernel installation > > script. > > > > Your changelog says what the patch does, but gives no indication of why it > > did it. > > > > What do we get back for the breakage which this will cause? > > > > Now I'm going to have to look for both .kernelrelease and > > include/config/kernel.release and work out which one has the more recent > > mtime. grr. > That you have for not using 'make kernelrelease' - he ;-) > Did you not know, or did make kernelrelease not do what you expected? >
I stopped using `make kernelrelease' when it did something bad when used from another machine across NFS.
<tries it>
hm, it takes nearly five seconds, but it wasn't that - something actually broke. But I forget what it was. I'll put it back and will wait for it to reoccur.
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