Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:25:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | linux kernel conf 0.7 |
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Hi,
At http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/ you can find the latest version of the new config system. Besides the usual archive there is also now a patch against a 2.5.39 kernel and finally some documentation. This patch I also consider as my first release canditate, so please test this one carefully, this release contains pretty much everything I want from the first release to be integrated into the kernel. Other changes: - update to 2.5.39 - seperate kernel Makefile (by Sam Ravnborg/Kai Germaschewski) - lots of qconf fine tuning - the generated config files are now named Build.conf and use tabs instead of two spaces, which makes it easier to read.
An issue (which was also mentioned by Jeff Garzik) is the help text format. Jeff likes to have an endhelp, where I think it's redundant. The parser currently checks the amount of indendation to find the end of the help text, this makes the help text quite easy to read and parse. If someone prefers an endhelp (or has an even better idea), please speak up now, if enough people complain, I have no problem changing it.
If someone is still wondering, why he should use lkc, as he is happy with "make oldconfig", look at this comparison. Current version:
$ time make oldconfig /bin/sh ./scripts/Configure -d arch/i386/config.in # # Using defaults found in .config # ...
real 0m13.213s user 0m5.520s sys 0m5.440s
New version:
$ time make oldconfig make[1]: Entering directory `/home/roman/src/lc' make[1]: `conf' is up to date. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roman/src/lc' ./scripts/lkc/conf -o arch/i386/Build.conf # # using defaults found in .config # ...
real 0m0.473s user 0m0.220s sys 0m0.050s
These are the numbers from cache, so you have to add the amount of time needed to read the config files from disk. The new files are larger as they include the help text, but as long as you don't configure over a very slow network, it will still be faster.
bye, Roman
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