On 6.4.2011 18:25, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 5.4.2011 20:57, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Timestamps in file data are useless and there is already one in .config >>>> >>> hum, shouldn't this be tunable via KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP ? This might be >>> useful to know when the file was generated, independently of the >>> .config, as conf_write() and conf_write_autoconf() are independent >>> from one another. >> >> Yeah, but ls -l include/generated/autoconf.h will tell you the same, >> won't it? >> > Not if the file is spread to other machine/fs. Not that I care much > though, but for consistency, either KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP is honored in > every places where timestamps are used, or it should be killed > altogether. Or we kill the timestamps in the other places :). auto.conf and autoconf.h are "internal" files, .config is the file supplied and edited by the user and I can see that some might find the embedded timestamp useful. But I doubt that anyone needs the timestamp in auto.conf and autoconf.h. Michal -- 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
