On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:32:52PM -0700, SL Baur wrote: > On 4/30/08, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:45:57 -0700 SL Baur wrote: > > > > Is there any reasonable way to embed the configuration file name in the kernel > > > image like BSD does it? /proc/config.gz is a good way to retrieve way to > > > retrieve configuration information on a running system, not so good for pushing > > > kernels out to a network and keeping track of the config files on the build > > > machine. > > > > > > I don't know how BSD does it, but CONFIG_IKCONFIG does embed the > > config image in the kernel. It can be extracted with > > scripts/extract-ikconfig. > > No, that's not what I meant. Now that we have a means of specifying > a configuration file by name, it would be nice if the file name could, > for example, be appended to EXTRAVERSION. That's all it would > take to duplicate the behavior I misdescribed. > > > Eg. `make K=HPxw4300.config ...' would have "-HPxw4300" appended > to EXTRAVERSION. Maybe this doesn't make sense any more, but it > was once something I wanted very much. You can just do: echo "-HPxw4300" > localversion Then it gets appended to the kernel version. While not automatic is solves your need. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
