Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:25:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:25:33 -0500 Received: from atlrel6.hp.com ([156.153.255.205]:55451 "HELO atlrel6.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:25:15 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Bjorn Helgaas To: esr@thyrsus.com, Keith Owens Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] CML2 1.9.7 is available Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:29:05 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20011212023556.A8819@thyrsus.com> <16992.1008153373@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <20011213034930.A8337@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: <20011213034930.A8337@thyrsus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20011213162508.F30944674@ldl.fc.hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 13 December 2001 1:49 am, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Keith Owens : > > OUCH! The output from make menuconfig has significantly more options > > than make oldconfig when given exactly the same input. I thought one > > of the selling points for CML2 was different front ends but with > > identical back end processing. I don't like the way that the > > resulting config varies when fed to different front ends. > > Not a big deal -- all the produced config.outs are logically equivalent. Not a big deal in theory, maybe, but it is very convenient to use diff to compare .config files, and diff doesn't know about logical equivalence. -- Bjorn Helgaas - bjorn_helgaas@hp.com Linux Systems Operation R&D Hewlett-Packard - 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/