On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:50:16AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > Why can't we simply always write the .config? > > > > Hi Adrian. > > > > I just pushed a patch that does this. > > If I see it correctly that's not quite correct either. The old > silentoldconfig does a few things differently than a normal config target, > because it's a special target called by Kbuild when needed: > > - bail out if input is needed but stdio is not a tty > - silent mode > - update .config only as needed > - always update autoconf > > With the change to make the silent mode the default, the "silent" name has > become a little obsolete and should probably be renamed, but whatever the > name above actions should still be done if called by Kbuild internally. silentoldconfig now always update .config - and that a bug. I was too hasty ghere - sorry. Will fix it during the weekend. 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
