Hi,
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andrew, what might be very interesting for you is that kconfig is not
> > rewriting .config anymore all the time by itself and if you set
> > KCONFIG_NOSILENTUPDATE you can even omit the silent updates, so unless you
> > explicitly call one of the config targets, you can be sure kbuild won't
> > touch your .config symlink anymore and as long as the .config is in sync
> > with the Kconfig files you shouldn't see a difference. I'm very interested
> > how that works for you.
>
> Badly, sorry. `make oldconfig' blows away the .config symlink.
I know, that's why I said "unless you explicitly call one of the config
targets", "make silentoldconfig" is the only exception, but this one is
already implicitly called during a kbuild when something changed.
If you call "make oldconfig", you have to restore the symlink manually.
bye, Roman
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