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SubjectRe: Make menuconfig broken

> 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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