Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764497AbYHEUv0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:51:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761189AbYHEUvF (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:51:05 -0400 Received: from smtpout3.tre.se ([80.251.192.228]:38658 "EHLO smtpout3.tre.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764197AbYHEUvC (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:51:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:43:32 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Roman Zippel Cc: Adrian Bunk , Josh Boyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kconfig no longer outputs a .config with freshly updated defconfigs Message-ID: <20080805204332.GB5464@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <1217693013.2328.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080802192646.GR19682@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080803080019.GA13265@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080803100732.GA7442@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20080804210848.GA29902@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1186 Lines: 34 On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:50:16AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > 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. silentoldconfig now always update .config - and that a bug. I was too hasty ghere - sorry. Will fix it during the weekend. 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/