Re: [PATCH] Add ``cloneconfig'' target

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Miguel Ojeda
>> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> /proc/config.gz is provided by the kernel and its format is defined by
>>> kconfig itself which is, as well, part of the kernel (it is not one
>>> random format from a pool of a trillion), so it will be nice if
>>> kconfig learns how to read its own configuration from there.
>>>
>> your point being ? kconfig is not only used by the Linux kernel, and
>> you cannot expect the feature to only be used in the cozy Linux kernel
>> environment.
>
> My point was that supporting reading from a .gz file is not anywhere
> near "knowing about the trillion file format which exist in the world"
>
Well, Jeff's patch is already about gzip and bzip2. Soon it will be
compress, xz, zip, rar, then rzip, lzma, 7z ...

 - Arnaud
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