[ILUG] Kernel configuration strangeness

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 30 April 2004 13:19, Conor Wynne wrote:
> > So, I have a RHES 3 box on which I'm rebuilding a kernel. I take the
> > appropriate one of the RHES sample kernel configs, and then do make
> > {x,menu,old}config and save the resultant config files. Note that I do NO
> > changes, just make, and save.
> >
> > Having done that, I end up with three different config files. And it's
> > not even that they're just differently ordered - some options are
> > actually different from one to the other file. Anyone able to shed some
> > light?

I was quite surprised when I did this (with kernel -2.6.6-rc2)
that I actually got exactly the same 3 .config files from
make distclean
make oldconfig
cp .config oldconfig
make distclean
make xconfig
cp .config xconfig
make distclean
make menuconfig
cp .config menuconfig

I'd actually expected 3 different config files
but in fact they were identical.

[tim at martha linux-2.6.6-rc2]$ ls -ls *config
28 -rw-rw-r--  1 tim tim 26676 Apr 30 15:46 menuconfig
28 -rw-rw-r--  1 tim tim 26676 Apr 30 15:41 oldconfig
28 -rw-rw-r--  1 tim tim 26676 Apr 30 15:44 xconfig


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