Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:16:37 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22.7 autoconf.h is screwed up
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Hi Jaswinder.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:36:43PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> Dear Sam,
> 
> On 9/24/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:50:43PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > 2.6.22.7's include/linux/autoconf.h is completely screwed up as
> > > compare to 2.6.10's autoconf.h .
> > >
> > > 2.6.22.7 totally changed the meaning of autoconf.h
> >
> > autoconf.h has always been autogenerated. And autoconf.h has always
> > been used to publish the configuration to .c files.
> >
> > What changed between 2.6.10 and 26.22 are the algorithm used to
> > produce autoconf.h.
> 
> I just curious, how algorithm is written that it makes readable to non-readable.
Part of a larger change. git has full history.
Try to look here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=scripts/kconfig/confdata.c;h=b2913e9da495bf921b9d004012adef18996f4efa;hb=HEAD

It is the changes around 2006-06-09

	Sam
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