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 -- 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