Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:18:05 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: .config - is the time really necessary |
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:57:39PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote: > Line 3 of the .config files has the current date in it. Is this > information of any use to anyone? It makes life difficult when > producing series of patches that touches a defconfig, as you end > up with conflicts if you go back and change/remove/add one to the > series. > > Would people object to the time/date being removed from the .config > file?
From: Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt:
KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP -------------------------------------------------- If this environment variable exists and is non-null, the timestamp line in generated .config files is omitted.
Sam
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