Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:41:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/19] kconfig patches |
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Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > > 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.
OK. S_ISLNK? `setenv DONT_BE_IRRITATING 1'?
> Could you send me link or a copy of your build tools, which deals with the > symlink?
Not sure what you mean really. I use the normal in-tree things, plus the patch in the earlier email.
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