Re: Purpose of headers files in include/config/ ?

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On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:59:13PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> During a kernel build, the following:
> 
> % find include/config -type f ! -size 0
> 
> returns nothing beside:
> 
> include/config/auto.conf.cmd
> include/config/tristate.conf
> include/config/auto.conf
> include/config/kernel.release
> 
> What's the purpose of the 5M+ of empty headers generated by
> conf_split_config() ? Simply nuking conf_split_config() does not seem
> to alter the build.
They are used to track changes in the configuration.
Try to change some random value in kernel hackers menu and see the difference.

	Sam
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