Hi, On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > indeed. I've been mislead by the fact that non-existent headers were silently ignored. Thanks, - Arnaud -- 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
