Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751795Ab1BZX0Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:26:24 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:62411 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751409Ab1BZX0X (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:26:23 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=KWCIMr3S2aYH+3Pycpc01FBrYaDBKULNjS/8qfjVoezrLyq4isgQtyfELs5BVIVDLe tcTspUhamVsUFFbuBB8IK+wRP2NatPHcFOUgpBjJGOaUxL276K7sCVdAx+uaMiDeeuJO vviu2K+urywrDMf7QjQ0bIzMhWBcW2GPPZLGE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4D671556.80607@suse.com> <20110225060706.GA12723@merkur.ravnborg.org> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:26:22 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ``cloneconfig'' target From: Arnaud Lacombe To: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Jeff Mahoney , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Roman Zippel , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1230 Lines: 28 Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Miguel Ojeda >> wrote: >>> /proc/config.gz is provided by the kernel and its format is defined by >>> kconfig itself which is, as well, part of the kernel (it is not one >>> random format from a pool of a trillion), so it will be nice if >>> kconfig learns how to read its own configuration from there. >>> >> your point being ? kconfig is not only used by the Linux kernel, and >> you cannot expect the feature to only be used in the cozy Linux kernel >> environment. > > My point was that supporting reading from a .gz file is not anywhere > near "knowing about the trillion file format which exist in the world" > Well, Jeff's patch is already about gzip and bzip2. Soon it will be compress, xz, zip, rar, then rzip, lzma, 7z ... - Arnaud -- 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/