Re: [PATCH 0/19] kconfig patches

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Andrew, what might be very interesting for you is that kconfig is not 
> >  rewriting .config anymore all the time by itself and if you set 
> >  KCONFIG_NOSILENTUPDATE you can even omit the silent updates, so unless you 
> >  explicitly call one of the config targets, you can be sure kbuild won't 
> >  touch your .config symlink anymore and as long as the .config is in sync 
> >  with the Kconfig files you shouldn't see a difference. I'm very interested 
> >  how that works for you.
> 
> Badly, sorry.  `make oldconfig' blows away the .config symlink.

I know, that's why I said "unless you explicitly call one of the config 
targets", "make silentoldconfig" is the only exception, but this one is 
already implicitly called during a kbuild when something changed.
If you call "make oldconfig", you have to restore the symlink manually.

bye, Roman
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