[kbuild-devel] RFC - kconfig date must die

2006-07-01 Thread Jim Cromie
IOW: can we switch the default of CONFIG_NODATESTAMP ? Clearly, somebody has already thought about stripping the date from .configs, but it seems to me that this has been forgotten, and warrants a fresh look. - I searched http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kbuild-develr=1b=200604w=2 for

Re: [kbuild-devel] RFC - kconfig date must die

2006-07-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:04:24PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: ... Since it has been so long, I'll state some obvious benefits of dropping the date: ... If we drop it, then we get: - less noise when comparing configs - each config is unique and fingerprintable. - kernel gets the

Re: [kbuild-devel] RFC - kconfig date must die

2006-07-01 Thread Jim Cromie
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:04:24PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: ... Since it has been so long, I'll state some obvious benefits of dropping the date: ... If we drop it, then we get: - less noise when comparing configs - each config is unique and fingerprintable. -

Re: [kbuild-devel] RFC - kconfig date must die

2006-07-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:53:02PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:04:24PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: ... Since it has been so long, I'll state some obvious benefits of dropping the date: ... If we drop it, then we get: - less noise when

Re: [kbuild-devel] RFC - kconfig date must die

2006-07-01 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:04:24PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: IOW: can we switch the default of CONFIG_NODATESTAMP ? Clearly, somebody has already thought about stripping the date from .configs, but it seems to me that this has been forgotten, and warrants a fresh look. - I searched

Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Minor changes to allow static analysis checkers besides sparse

2006-07-01 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:57:23PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 22:17 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:20:46PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: Minor changes to allow static analysis checkers besides sparse This patch allows CHECK and