linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22.7 autoconf.h is screwed up

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709250907580.23305@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:10:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Jaswinder Singh <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22.7 autoconf.h is screwed up

On Sep 24 2007 16:25, Jaswinder Singh wrote:

>So it is obsolete for user's point of view, right ?

.config is human-readable and serves as input for kconfig,

and autoconf.h is kconfig's output for the C binding that
you do not mess with.

Neither is obsolete, end of story.

If Linux were to have Perl bindings, there would probably
be an autoconf.pl.
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