Apparently there is a KCONFIG_NOTIMESTAMP environment variable which

disables the timestamp.

diff --git a/.config b/.config
index 9aa11a31250a4d4e6f4924086cab6a9b325c5e1f..99521eac59bbd855ad94574e03f3272fafd61019 100644 (file)
--- a/.config
+++ b/.config
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
-# Linux kernel version: 2.6.24.3-zbeee-toi
-# <timestamp>#
+# Linux kernel version: 2.6.24.4-zbeee-toi
 # CONFIG_64BIT is not set
 CONFIG_X86_32=y
 # CONFIG_X86_64 is not set

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index d86a5daf44db642d290929bf9ac436b21187b8c5..e0f402f3b75d94d765875a6299f1f154e23a1c32 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
                       "#\n"),
                     sym_get_string_value(sym),
                     use_timestamp ? "# " : "",
-                    use_timestamp ? "<timestamp>" : "");
+                    use_timestamp ? ctime(&now) : "");
 
        if (!conf_get_changed())
                sym_clear_all_valid();