Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Date | 20 Jan 2005 00:41:43 +0100 |
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Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> writes:
> The user does a ``make menuconfig'', and expects to see sane defaults. > What kconfig really does is take the running kernel's configuration > instead. This is a ad choice; it makes much more sense to take > arch/$ARCH/defconfig.
IIRC the vanilla kernel's arch/i386/defconfig is the "this config boots Linus' machine" configuration (or has that changed recently?). I certainly wouldn't call that a sane default ...
For vendor kernels with a generic defconfig that makes sense though.
Gerd
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