Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:43:51 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: make cloneconfig ? |
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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. > > anyone know the reason for that ? > > 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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