Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:50:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kconfig no longer outputs a .config with freshly updated defconfigs
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Hi,

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> > Why can't we simply always write the .config?
> 
> Hi Adrian.
> 
> I just pushed a patch that does this.

If I see it correctly that's not quite correct either. The old 
silentoldconfig does a few things differently than a normal config target, 
because it's a special target called by Kbuild when needed:

- bail out if input is needed but stdio is not a tty
- silent mode
- update .config only as needed
- always update autoconf

With the change to make the silent mode the default, the "silent" name has 
become a little obsolete and should probably be renamed, but whatever the 
name above actions should still be done if called by Kbuild internally.

bye, Roman
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