Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2001 03:46:20 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> |
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Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>: > Then it must somehow handle me trying to (incorrectly) answer X86=Y, > SMP=Y, RTC=N in some order?
What it does is (a) always start with a valid config, and (b) not permit any change that would make it invalid.
So, you froze X86 at startup. SMP gets asked early. If you specify SMP=y, and then later try to set RTC=n, the configurator will not let you do it and will explain why. At that point if you want you can go back and change SMP.
> Perhaps I have missed something, but I really prefer the old oldconfig > over the new oldconfig.
What's to prefer? You get essentially the same behavior unless you start with a broken config. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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