linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add ``cloneconfig'' target

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=+PD9jTMJ+MsB0S+ESmN97O69HosbuVB7fgaQN@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:26:22 -0500
From:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
To:	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ``cloneconfig'' target

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Miguel Ojeda
>> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
>>> /proc/config.gz is provided by the kernel and its format is defined by
>>> kconfig itself which is, as well, part of the kernel (it is not one
>>> random format from a pool of a trillion), so it will be nice if
>>> kconfig learns how to read its own configuration from there.
>>>
>> your point being ? kconfig is not only used by the Linux kernel, and
>> you cannot expect the feature to only be used in the cozy Linux kernel
>> environment.
>
> My point was that supporting reading from a .gz file is not anywhere
> near "knowing about the trillion file format which exist in the world"
>
Well, Jeff's patch is already about gzip and bzip2. Soon it will be
compress, xz, zip, rar, then rzip, lzma, 7z ...

 - Arnaud
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