linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL 2/3] Kconfig updates for v4.19

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxRPLjo_XnWDw5sYLnSjNhf8iPHGXomQitnGJjyuViXCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:10:51 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        masahiroy@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 2/3] Kconfig updates for v4.19

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:58 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
> Masahiro Yamada (15):
>       kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count

This one is annoying me.

I don't care if it updates .config. But it does so *noisily*, so now
my build scripts en dup having extra noise coming out from them in the
form of another

  scripts/kconfig/conf  --syncconfig Kconfig
  #
  # configuration written to .config
  #

which is just distracting me and doesn't seem to add any value at all.

Ok, so it happens because I for legacy reasons have a "made dep" that
isn't useful any more (but my fingers have that as the "let's do a
kernel build" now macro), but it does seem to be entirely pointless.
Why make that big noise about something that doesn't even *do*
anything?

                  Linus