Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161269AbWASS6K (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:58:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161275AbWASS6J (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:58:09 -0500 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:8467 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161269AbWASS6H (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:58:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:57:20 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: "Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier" <2@pervalidus.net> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: create .kernelrelease at *config step Message-ID: <20060119185720.GA25157@mars.ravnborg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 914 Lines: 27 On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:31:03PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > Is this expected ? > > $ cd /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16 > $ make O=/home/fredlwm/objdir/ oldconfig > ... > make -C /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16 O=/home/fredlwm/objdir > .kernelrelease > Makefile:480: .config: No such file or directory > > .config is in /home/fredlwm/objdir > > .kernelrelease gets created in > /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16 . I thought nothing would be > written to the sources directory. What if I were on a read-only > filesystem ? > > I didn't try to build it. Are these harmless ? This is a bug, I will post a simple patch shortly to fix it. Sam - 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/