> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:17:46 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:01:30 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:50:30 -0400
> > >
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> >
> > > > Odd - just for grins, I checked what 'make oldconfig' did when handed a .config
> > > > from 22-rc4-mm2, and it behaved just fine, much to my surprise.
> > >
> > > That's probably because your old config file was relatively recent, and
> > > had things like CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y in it.
> >
> > Ahh... <light bulb goes on> Yeah, it gets a 'make oldconfig' for pretty
> > much every single -mm, I suck at any regression testing other than "since
> > the last -mm".
> >
>
> All my .configs have mouldered since I lost the ability to have .config be
> a symlink to a revision-controlled file (used to carry a custom patch for
> this, but it died).
>
> I continue to believe that kbuild's lets-trash-your-symlink behaviour is
> obnoxious, but I was unable to persuade anyone else of this.
