old style kernel configuration

[Bryan Drewery]

On 11/21/2012 8:21 PM, Devin Teske wrote:
> 
> On Nov 21, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
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>> I've been working on removing obsolete information various documents.
>> While going through older articles I noticed a few references to the
>> "old style" kernel configuration involving running config(1) manually.
>>
> 
> I always build kernels with config(1) because it allows me to embed the _entire_ kernel config into the kernel (by using the "-C" option to config(1)).
> 
> Otherwise, if I rely only on the INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE parameter, the comments are stripped from my config prior to embedding (and this is undesirable and thus why we always configure our kernel by executing "config -C -g configname").
> 
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>> Is there any value in keeping this documented as an alternative to
>> "make buildkernel" or should it be treated as an implementation detail?
>>
> 
> Value: ability to embed entire config (comments and all) into the kernel
> 
> Maybe this difference/value should be documented.
> 

Maybe it makes sense to add INCLUDE_ENTIRE_CONFIG_FILE?

Bryan