Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:05:02 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-mm2: no .config.old any more?
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Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de> wrote:
>
> 
> hi,
> 
> i noticed that 2.6.14-mm2 does not generate a .config.old anymore, so that 
> i can undo changes. i see that the Kconfig system is probably in flux 
> again ("Why did oldconfig's behavior change in 2.6.15-rc1?"), but i have 
> not seen this issue being reported:

Yeah, sorry, the diff you noticed is a horrid seven-second-hack I've
carried in my tree since the new Kconfig stuff went in (2.5.early) because
I want my .config to be a symlink to a revision-controlled file and the
Kconfig system (brokely) insists on blowing away the symlink each time you
run it.

A proper patch (which maybe does an lstat+special-stuff) would be nice.

But that particular diff only appears in the -mm rollup when I'm carrying
other patches against confdata.c, which rarely happens.  So it'll go away
again.


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