Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:20:25 -0400 | From | Masoud Sharbiani <> | Subject | Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel |
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:12:14AM -0700, Ahmad Reza Cheraghi wrote: > > > --- Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 05:37 +0200, Daniel Thaler > > wrote: > > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > Why does this have to be in the kernel again? > > Isn't this exactly what > > > > you get with a fully modular config and hotplug? > > > > > > It doesn't go in the kernel. If I understand > > correctly, it's a script that is > > > invoked by 'make autoconfig'. Note that I didn't > > read the patch, because it's a > > > .tgz on a website and I couldn't be bothered to > > download it. > > > > Oh, sorry. Then read that as "what's the point"? > > > > Lee > > > It does go in the Kernel. The files are all kept in > the directory <KERNEL>/scripts/kconfig/. > And I changed a little bit the Makefile and the conf.c > in the <KERNEl>/scrips/kconfig. > > OK, What he meant was: "Make it a as patch to, say, 2.6.14-rc1 and distribute it so that people can download and apply more easily, compared to a bigger tarbala" cheers, Masoud - 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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