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Author: Patrick Doyle
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To: Hector Oron
CC: balloon
Subject: Re: [Balloon] What's the best way to version control my kernel .config file?
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Hector Oron <> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> 2011/6/10 Patrick Doyle <>:
>
>> I notice that those files differ more than I expected (61 differences)
>> after a build from scratch.  Is that just bitrot?  Or am I missing
>> something?
>
> We got a directory defconfigs/ holding different configurations per variant.
> See < http://balloonboard.org/lurker/message/20110407.124534.1e70c288.en.html >
> If you want to submit your default build, please send it to us, I'll
> be happy to enable a variant for you.


It looks to me like defconfigs holds configuration data for the entire
build process. I'm looking for the best place to squirrel away the
kernel .config file so that if I do a "make
cleanupthewholeworldandstartfromscratch" (also known as a fresh
checkout), I don't lose that.

--wpd