Re: [PATCH 7/7] kconfig: search for a config to base thelocal(mod|yes)config on

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 14:15 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Here's the list and order of search:
> >
> >   /proc/config.gz
> >   /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
> >   vmlinux  # local to the directory
> >   /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/kernel/configs.ko
> >   kernel/configs.ko
> >   kernel/configs.o
> >   .config
> 
> 
> That seems like the wrong order. ./.config should always be first for
> compatibility. 
> 
> That order would completely wreck all my build scripts, and I suspect
> others too.

Quite, except that I hardly ever have a ./.config since I make extensive
use of O=foo
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