Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:05:57 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Select the profile and then fixup the config the normal way. >> >> If what the admin wants is incompatible with the profile, admin doesn't >> select the profile. > > Thats ugly - "distro except..." is a standard thing you ask users to do > for debugging. > > However providing you separate the initial profile from the later tools > it simply becomes > > make distroconfig > [cp /etc/system-kconfig(.$ARCH?) .config > make oldconfig] > > make menuconfig (if you want to customise) > > In addition the make oldconfig means you can ship a deliberately > incomplete distroconfig and get the user asked some bits.
exactly what I was fumbling to describe, thanks.
David Lang
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