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

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Message-ID: <20110524141947.GD2276@sepie.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 16:19:47 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: do not record timestamp in .config

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:16:11AM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> 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) ?

I merged it now.

Michal
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