Re: make cloneconfig ?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2008-04-24 00:43, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>> any reason why "make cloneconfig" never made it into mainline?
>>
>>  many people are quite used to it and every time i build vanilla kernel i step into that trap  "oh - that`s a suse`ism"
>>
>>  make cloneconfig exists since /proc/config.gz - but while that one went into mainline, cloneconfig never did.
>>
>>  anyone know the reason for that ?
>>
>>  i wished, distros kernels were more similar to vanilla kernels - so what about making them more similar ?
>>
>>
>
>Isn't "cloneconfig" basically just "zcat /proc/config.gz > .config &&
>make oldconfig" ???   If so, why do we need yet another "make
><some_target>" Makefile rule? What would actually be gained?

Not just that, it also searches /boot/config-... (a redhatism)
and /lib/modules/.../.config.
So it's not like it would be a suse-only shortcut.
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