Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 21:30:17 +0100 (BST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: Make menuconfig broken |
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> Well there are 2 issues here: > > 1) How to handle "make oldconfig" on 2.4 config files. Which may not be > fixable in a manner that doesn't involve really ugly code. > > 2) That make menuconfig|xconfig on a clean 2.6 tree results in a kernel > that doesn't have console support. This will be something that will > come up over and over again in the future, and does not require ugly > hacks to fix.
Instead of hacking up a oldconfig why not have the system detect old config files and refuse to build it and tell the user to start from scratch. I think this is acceptable.
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