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Message-ID: <9a8748490804231543h1203ff59i466e1ea9c02af0f2@mail.gmail.com> 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? -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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