linux-kernel - Re: make cloneconfig ?

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Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:43:51 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"devzero@....de" <devzero@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, agruen@...e.de
Subject: Re: make cloneconfig ?

On 24/04/2008, devzero@....de <devzero@....de> 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?

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