linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: do not record timestamp in .config

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Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 10:16:11 -0400
From:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: do not record timestamp in .config

Hi Michal,

2011/5/16 Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>:
> On 16.5.2011 05:22, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> The following patch removes the timestamp in .config file. This is a
>> prerequiresite for the revised version of the printer merge I sent back
>> in December[0]. The issue is that heading comment generations will be
>> merged in a single function, and that would revert the deterministic
>> change you made in mid-April.
>>
>> The other options are either to have timestamp always enabled and
>> disable them selectively, but that might be a pain to implement, or to
>> have timestamp disable by default and an environment variable, say
>> KCONFIG_TIMESTAMP, to turn everything on manually.
>
> I personally am not a big fan of embedded timestamps, so
>
> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
>
Do you intend to merge that patch for .1 (or whatever Linus decides to
call the next kernel) ?

 - Arnaud
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