From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RMJuI-00041c-Ks for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:34:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 216A521C070; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 13:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229DB21C027 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 13:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws19 with SMTP id 19so1115296vws.40 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:33:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=MMAxuuGUxUMXaOvXeBE5jgrQ85/qeTVRT0OKndiuXTM=; b=XnVyNLPnWTZOBNIVvz80Zw15wkp0Cux6qrvd2uKwxh5hj/lwcva6YJUOSPQQ/2uo3a Keepz6HCtNF3jN1aTGXHJxQYdvOKlDu0TG+I5MAHnKZXVaoSFFTXKywWmkBvGEZbNI3L TzSI6SKV59ym6SU0vqtr4N8hBkPZcxwRpGYw8= Received: by 10.182.226.33 with SMTP id rp1mr2916792obc.18.1320413608230; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.182.150.3 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 06:33:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4EB3E766.7030306@gentoo.org> References: <4EB3E1A2.6040702@gentoo.org> <4EB3E766.7030306@gentoo.org> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 19:03:07 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: XOUBJKvz9kBOkAVBD8AA1bQ3SMk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-info.eclass: check_extra_config requires a configured kernel To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: cc126d62-b705-47a2-a763-e00a98f8fe4d X-Archives-Hash: 6e19c62719e74c1b2888c6f6c7a7613c On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > The running kernel is really irrelevant for those of us that build binpkgs. > /usr/src/linux is "more correct" in the case of binpkgs and most upgrade > scenarios where you don't reboot for a new kernel immediately. > Also, for out-of-kernel modules that need the kernel source for building, the build-time .config is much more relevant than the runtime config. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team