Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932189Ab1DFUjP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:39:15 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:37419 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751049Ab1DFUjN (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:39:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4D9CCF71.8060906@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:39:13 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/34] kconfig: Do not record timestamp in auto.conf and autoconf.h References: <1302015561-21047-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <1302015561-21047-2-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz> <4D9C1842.6000602@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1424 Lines: 35 On 6.4.2011 18:25, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Michal Marek wrote: >> On 5.4.2011 20:57, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Michal Marek wrote: >>>> Timestamps in file data are useless and there is already one in .config >>>> >>> hum, shouldn't this be tunable via KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP ? This might be >>> useful to know when the file was generated, independently of the >>> .config, as conf_write() and conf_write_autoconf() are independent >>> from one another. >> >> Yeah, but ls -l include/generated/autoconf.h will tell you the same, >> won't it? >> > Not if the file is spread to other machine/fs. Not that I care much > though, but for consistency, either KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP is honored in > every places where timestamps are used, or it should be killed > altogether. Or we kill the timestamps in the other places :). auto.conf and autoconf.h are "internal" files, .config is the file supplied and edited by the user and I can see that some might find the embedded timestamp useful. But I doubt that anyone needs the timestamp in auto.conf and autoconf.h. Michal -- 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/