Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:31:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: make cloneconfig ? |
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On Thursday 2008-04-24 00:43, Jesper Juhl 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?
Not just that, it also searches /boot/config-... (a redhatism) and /lib/modules/.../.config. So it's not like it would be a suse-only shortcut.
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