From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] save kernel version in .config file
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:20:06 +0200
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:07:17 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote:
| On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
|
| > OK, I've added date, based on Sam's comments, but someone tell me,
| > when/why does filesystem-timestamp not work for this?
|
| Oh, there may be lots of reasons. The first one which comes to my mind is
| when I archive several config files in a same directory, I rarely think
| about adding '-a' to cp to preserve the dates. And when you're experimenting
| with a kernel and you're at the 20th at the end of the day, the date in the
| config file is often more reliable than yourself to keep track of what you
| have tried.
I see.
| Thanks,
| Willy
|
| PS: do you think this could be done easily to 2.4 too ?
It's trivial for 'make menuconfig' (bash scripting) [below].
OTOH, I won't look at the tcl/tk 'xconfig' stuff...
--
~Randy
linux-2.4.26
Save kernel version and config file date in config file.
diffstat:=
scripts/Menuconfig | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff -Naurp ./scripts/Menuconfig~config_version ./scripts/Menuconfig
--- ./scripts/Menuconfig~config_version 2002-08-02 17:39:46.000000000 -0700
+++ ./scripts/Menuconfig 2004-06-18 21:57:47.000000000 -0700
@@ -1275,13 +1275,18 @@ save_configuration () {
CONFIG=.tmpconfig
CONFIG_H=.tmpconfig.h
+ DATTIM=`date`
echo "#" >$CONFIG
echo "# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit" >>$CONFIG
+ echo "# Linux kernel version: $kernel_version" >>$CONFIG
+ echo "# $DATTIM" >>$CONFIG
echo "#" >>$CONFIG
echo "/*" >$CONFIG_H
echo " * Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit" >>$CONFIG_H
+ echo " * Linux kernel version: $kernel_version" >>$CONFIG_H
+ echo " * $DATTIM" >>$CONFIG_H
echo " */" >>$CONFIG_H
echo "#define AUTOCONF_INCLUDED" >> $CONFIG_H
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