Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:27:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default |
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Hi,
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Okay, more verbose then. On your machine which is running kernel version > x you build kernel version y. You grab the version y kernel source tree, > let's say a vendor tree, which has meaningful default configurations in > arch/$ARCH/defconfig. The runnig kernel's configuration may also work > for that kernel source tree, or it may not.
How is that more verbose? Please provide an example config that worked under 2.4 but doesn't produce a reasonable result under 2.6.
> > So they should first try the 2.6 kernel provided by the distribution and > > then try compiling their own kernel. In this situation it's actually more > > likely that they produce a working kernel with the current behaviour, the > > defconfig is not a guarantee for a working kernel either. > > You assume that the user is already running the kind of kernel he is > trying to produce. Al least to me this assumption seems weird.
Why is that weird?
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