Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:50:20 +0200 | From | Toon van der Pas <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] make localconfig |
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 03:25:58PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Toon van der Pas wrote: > > > localconfig(9) Generating local configuration localconfig(9) > > > > Yow! The return of Aunt Tillie compiling a kernel! :-) > > Oh, please. This was not my intention.
My apologies. I really couldn't resist..
> 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?
Regards, Toon.
BTW: Considering that you are not out of your mind (most of the time), I admire your courage in bringing up this subject. ;-) -- /"\ | \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN | "Who is this General Failure, and X AGAINST HTML MAIL | what is he doing on my harddisk?" / \ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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