linux-kernel - Re: Additional kconfig targets (cloneconfig, nonint

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Message-ID: <ed10ee420804301332n5fb72f3jb9bdea03aa313fad@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:32:52 -0700
From:	"SL Baur" <steve@...acs.org>
To:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	"Andres Salomon" <dilinger@...ued.net>,
	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Dave Jones" <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
	"Roland McGrath" <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Additional kconfig targets (cloneconfig, nonint_oldconfig etc)

On 4/30/08, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:45:57 -0700 SL Baur wrote:

>  > Is there any reasonable way to embed the configuration file name in the kernel
>  > image like BSD does it?  /proc/config.gz is a good way to retrieve way to
>  > retrieve configuration information on a running system, not so good for pushing
>  > kernels out to a network and keeping track of the config files on the build
>  > machine.
>
>
> I don't know how BSD does it, but CONFIG_IKCONFIG does embed the
>  config image in the kernel.  It can be extracted with
>  scripts/extract-ikconfig.

No, that's not what I meant.  Now that we have a means of specifying
a configuration file by name, it would be nice if the file name could,
for example, be appended to EXTRAVERSION.  That's all it would
take to duplicate the behavior I misdescribed.


Eg. `make K=HPxw4300.config ...' would have "-HPxw4300" appended
to EXTRAVERSION.  Maybe this doesn't make sense any more, but it
was once something I wanted very much.

-sb
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