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SubjectRe: make cloneconfig ?
On 24/04/2008, devzero@web.de <devzero@web.de> wrote:
> any reason why "make cloneconfig" never made it into mainline?
>
> many people are quite used to it and every time i build vanilla kernel i step into that trap "oh - that`s a suse`ism"
>
> make cloneconfig exists since /proc/config.gz - but while that one went into mainline, cloneconfig never did.
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> anyone know the reason for that ?
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> i wished, distros kernels were more similar to vanilla kernels - so what about making them more similar ?
>
>

Isn't "cloneconfig" basically just "zcat /proc/config.gz > .config &&
make oldconfig" ??? If so, why do we need yet another "make
<some_target>" Makefile rule? What would actually be gained?

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