Re: [PATCHv2] Kbuild: kconfig: Verbose version of --listnewconfig

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
[...]
>> >> I would not expect to see any header if there is no new symbol(s).
>> >> However, that might complicate the code too much. Btw, I find
>> >> "Changes" to be misleading, is that header necessary ?
>> >
>> > We use this feature (or an earlier version of it) in automated kernel
>> > builds in Debian, so we expect the output to appear in build logs and
>> > the header makes it easier to pick out.
>> >
>> That's easily doable outside kconfig.
>
> No it isn't, as the Kconfig code must be built as part of the
> listnewconfig target.  (Building just the code first will provoke
> warnings about the invalid config.)
>
echo "#"
echo "# Changes:"
echo "#"
make [...] listnewconfig

does the job, without introducing extra header others do not seem to
want to see.

 - Arnaud