Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:25:15 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: defconfig: Set CONFIG_LOCALVERSION in multi v4t/v5/v7 defconfigs |
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Hi Olof,
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:46 PM Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven > <geert+renesas@glider.be> wrote: > > This allows to derive the kernel flavor from the kernel version at > > runtime. > > > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> > > I prefer not to have this go in -- this is extremely likely to creep > into derivative configs and as such it would have no value (you can't > be sure it's still the same config).
Fair enough. Unfortunately we cannot prevent that from happening :-(
> /proc/config.gz is the way to keep track of exactly what config you're > running anyway, right?
Yes, in some convoluted and hard to identify way ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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