Re: [PATCH] make miniconfig (take 2)

From: Rob Landley
Date: Fri Nov 25 2005 - 16:45:19 EST


On Friday 25 November 2005 13:45, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Odd.
> >
> > The way the script works is it repeatedly calls "make miniconfig" to see
> > if removing each line makes a difference. Judging by the output, it
> > thinks none of the lines it removed made any difference.
> >
> > Could you send me the .config you tried to shrink down?
>
> Here it is.
>
> #
> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> # Linux kernel version: 2.6.15-rc2
> # Wed Nov 23 14:17:02 2005
...

Uh-huh.

landley@driftwood:~/linux-2.6.15-rc2$ make allnoconfig > /dev/null
landley@driftwood:~/linux-2.6.15-rc2$ diff -u .config pavelconfig
--- .config 2005-11-25 15:38:49.333425064 -0600
+++ pavelconfig3 2005-11-25 15:41:40.929338520 -0600
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
-# Linux kernel version: 2.6.15-rc2-git2
-# Fri Nov 25 15:38:49 2005
+# Linux kernel version: 2.6.15-rc2
+# Wed Nov 23 14:17:02 2005
#
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y
landley@driftwood:~/linux-2.6.15-rc2$

Am I wrong, or is the .config you just sent me identical to the output of
allnoconfig? (I have no idea why it decided CONFIG_PM=y was needed, I just
reproduced that here. Probably an idiosyncrasy of allnoconfig, I could
investigate that...)

Rob
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