Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265344AbUFRWMZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:12:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265339AbUFRWMA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:12:00 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:29059 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262208AbUFRWId (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:08:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:04:39 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] save kernel version in .config file Message-Id: <20040618150439.25a57d05.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200406180638.i5I6cwX12193@tag.witbe.net> References: <20040617220651.0ceafa91.rddunlap@osdl.org> <200406180638.i5I6cwX12193@tag.witbe.net> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 28 On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:38:58 +0200 Paul Rolland wrote: | Hello, | | > | > Is this interesting to anyone besides me? | > | Is it also possible to have this version being displayed during | a make config/make menuconfig/... so that we know we are reading a | config file that may have been generated for another kernel version, | and not yet saved ? | | You would have, for make menuconfig : | | Linux Kernel v2.2.13 Configuration, Configuration file version 2.4.20 Sure, it's possible. I just don't want to add the kitchen sink. IOW, I'm not convinced that it's useful most of the time... only a little bit of the time. -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/