Re: [PATCH] kconfig: OVERRIDE: save kernel version in .config file

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:18:35PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > Applied - but I named it KCONFIG_TIMESTAMP so people would not
> > think that kbuild suddenly stopped checking timestamps.
> 
> That reminds me, I'm not really happy with this patch, it's a hack not a 
> real solution, either we save the timestamp always or not at all, making 
> it dependent on an environment variable is IMO ugly.
> I have a patch which does some tighter checking during config loading, 
> which can be used whether it's needed to write the config. Other front 
> ends could use this as well (e.g. xconfig right now always ask to save
> the config).

The better approach for sure. When we have this in place I will
delete the KCONFIG_NOTIMESTMAP hack.

	Sam
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