Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Aug 2002 07:03:34 -0600 (MDT) | From | Thunder from the hill <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] make localconfig |
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Hi,
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Toon van der Pas wrote: > > If you think it's a _deadly_bad_idea_to_do_ please tell me. It is, > > after all, just an RFC, means I request you to comment on this. > > I could even ask for kernel protection for the mice. > > A serious question about your proposal then: > The .config file doesn't excusively contain information regarding > what hardware to support. It also carries a lot of information about > the functionality and the optimzations the user wishes to incorporate > in his kernel. How would localconfig deal with that?
Well, the idea is to - scan the kernel messages for things that got loaded - figure the hardware configuration - figure out guessable optimizations - use the default values for the rest
I don't want to decide between "y" and "n". That would go wrong. The only thing is that there *should* be a decision on whether the support is vital for boot or not, if not we compile as module.
This statement is not valid for debug options, though...
> BTW: Considering that you are not out of your mind (most of the > time), I admire your courage in bringing up this subject. ;-)
I wonder whether that's a good thing...
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