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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:53:58 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] linux kernel conf 0.6
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Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
>>One cosmetic thing I mentioned to Roman, Config.new needs to be changed 
>>to something better, like conf.in or build.conf or somesuch.
> 
> 
> I agree. (But I'm not particularly good at coming up with names ;) 
> build.conf is maybe not too bad considering that there may be a day where 
> it is extended to support "<driver>.conf" as well.

We want to make sure the config format is extensible in case we want to 
add Makefile rules or some other metadata (i.e. <driver>.conf contains 
all config/make info needed to build a driver, just drop it in)


> One other thing I wanted to mention but forgot was that lkc now
> does a quiet "make oldconfig" when .config changed or does not exist, 
> which is changed behavior.


Can you elaborate a bit on that?  'make oldconfig' is one of the things 
we want to keep working as-is...  That was a downside of ESR's system. 
If you're saying "silent" as in, if-no-changes-occurred or 
defconfig-copied-as-is, that's cool...

	Jeff



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