Hi Linus, 2018-08-16 6:10 GMT+09:00 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:58 AM Masahiro Yamada > <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Masahiro Yamada (15): >> kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count > > This one is annoying me. > > I don't care if it updates .config. But it does so *noisily*, so now > my build scripts en dup having extra noise coming out from them in the > form of another > > scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig > # > # configuration written to .config > # > > which is just distracting me and doesn't seem to add any value at all. > > Ok, so it happens because I for legacy reasons have a "made dep" that > isn't useful any more (but my fingers have that as the "let's do a > kernel build" now macro), but it does seem to be entirely pointless. > Why make that big noise about something that doesn't even *do* > anything? > > Linus I see. I wrote this patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10567117/ I will apply it to my tree with some other fixes and send another pull request in this MW. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
