Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:57:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > This moves the .kernelrelease file into include/config directory.
> > > Remove its generation from the config step, if the config step doesn't
> > > leave a proper .config behind, it triggers a call to silentoldconfig.
> > > Instead its generation can be done via proper dependencies.
> >
> > Well that was a pita. I was using that file in my kernel installation
> > script.
> >
> > Your changelog says what the patch does, but gives no indication of why it
> > did it.
> >
> > What do we get back for the breakage which this will cause?
> >
> > Now I'm going to have to look for both .kernelrelease and
> > include/config/kernel.release and work out which one has the more recent
> > mtime. grr.
> That you have for not using 'make kernelrelease' - he ;-)
> Did you not know, or did make kernelrelease not do what you expected?
>
I stopped using `make kernelrelease' when it did something bad when used
from another machine across NFS.
<tries it>
hm, it takes nearly five seconds, but it wasn't that - something actually
broke. But I forget what it was. I'll put it back and will wait for it
to reoccur.
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