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

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 15:32:50 EST


On Sat, Oct 16, 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.

The point is: avoid conflicts when 2 people change different parts of
the .config.
Just drop the whole thing, I doubt the timestamp matters much.

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