2009-01-12 18:57:51

by Ben Dooks

Subject: .config - is the time really necessary

Line 3 of the .config files has the current date in it. Is this
information of any use to anyone? It makes life difficult when
producing series of patches that touches a defconfig, as you end
up with conflicts if you go back and change/remove/add one to the
series.

Would people object to the time/date being removed from the .config
file?

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Ben ([email protected], http://www.fluff.org/)

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2009-01-12 19:16:33

by Sam Ravnborg

Subject: Re: .config - is the time really necessary

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:57:39PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
> Line 3 of the .config files has the current date in it. Is this
> information of any use to anyone? It makes life difficult when
> producing series of patches that touches a defconfig, as you end
> up with conflicts if you go back and change/remove/add one to the
> series.
>
> Would people object to the time/date being removed from the .config
> file?

From: Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt:

KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP
--------------------------------------------------
If this environment variable exists and is non-null, the timestamp line
in generated .config files is omitted.


Sam