Re: need distro people opinion on config.gz changes

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz> writes:

> Andrew Morton wants opinions on resent changes in upstream:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/452074
> Message-ID: <20061001181702.f0fce3ac.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Say I build a kernel with /proc/config.gz. 2 days later I notice that
I forgot some module and just build that.

If the config.gz is compiled into the vmlinuz then that won't refelct
the actual kernel+modules anymore.

If there is a config.ko that could get rebuild on every change to
.config and thus include the update to build an extra module.

I kind of like that.


For distributions I think it is rather irelevant. They build the
kernel debs or rpms and that is that. They don't change during use. If
the .config changes a complete new deb/rpm is build.

MfG
        Goswin