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Am 12.12.2011 12:46, schrieb Alexander Kriegisch:
> walter harms, 12.12.2011 09:12:
>> Am 10.12.2011 20:05, schrieb Alexander Kriegisch:
>>> Any chance to get the -t/-d options as configurable ones?
>>
>> technical this is not a major problem but your will have to talk to
>> VDA as he is the maintainer.
> 
> I know he reads this list... ;-)
> 
>> And to be far in his position i would
>> think hard to support this. The reason is very simple lets assume
>> that you add 2 config option here and for all other applets (ca. 300+)
>> that would create a flood of 600+ config options way to much.
> 
> I asked about one option, not 600+. Besides, in our project we had a

you are right but saying "yes" is equivalent to say: we want a config option
to enable/disable every option in every applet.

> situation like the one you fear: a flood of new options because we got a
> donation of 150+ packages (i.e. several 100 new options). Tests with a
> script generating 2000 dummy options showed that Kconfig file parsing
> was not noticeably slower when calling make menuconfig. Only if the hard
> disk cache was flushed we saw that reading many small kconfig files from
> disk was kinda slow. What we did was create an automatically updated
> Cache containing all config options in one big file so as to eliminate
> re-reading so many small files. It was tremendously helpful. Feel free
> to use our code:
> 
> http://freetz.org/browser/trunk/Makefile?rev=8192#L428
> Check targets config-cache and dependent ones like menuconfig, config,
> oldnoconfig etc.
> 
> http://freetz.org/browser/trunk/tools/parse-config?rev=8192
> Perl script updating cache (on my hard drive I also have slightly slower
> variants in awk and bash).
> 
>> to have a chance you need an use case please explain to the ml why
>> you need that particular option. there is a good change that we can
>> suggest an alternative way.
> 
> To be able to change a file timestamp on an embedded platform.

to a given timestamp, i guess i see the problem :)

I think in this case we need to drop DESKTOP to make that tools functional 
again.

re,
 wh



> Regards
> --
> Alexander Kriegisch (kriegaex)
> http://freetz.org
> 
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