Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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",
I know that's why you said that ;)
> If you call "make oldconfig", you have to restore the symlink manually.
Why? What advantage does that have?
I've been using the copy-it-there approach for maybe four years and have
yet to notice any problem with it.
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