Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:35:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/19] kconfig patches |
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Hi,
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 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.
Pretty much every other tool removes the old file before or after creating the new file. This allows it to work with a hardlinked tree, which unfortunately is currently broken for other reasons in kbuild.
Could you send me link or a copy of your build tools, which deals with the symlink?
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