From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933213AbXGLS5S (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:57:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755573AbXGLS5J (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:57:09 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:37857 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754817AbXGLS5I (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:57:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:56:45 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Mark Shelby Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel autoconfig option? Message-ID: <20070712185645.GA23576@kroah.com> References: <78ecab220707120718q7cfcff43u66f80711c7ec1005@mail.gmail.com> <78ecab220707120802p11ab3e1fye497f4107fe18c1d@mail.gmail.com> <20070712161402.GA18550@kroah.com> <78ecab220707120933q31a4efb5tb6dbed7a4787f5a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <78ecab220707120933q31a4efb5tb6dbed7a4787f5a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:33:18PM -0400, Mark Shelby wrote: > Thanks, greg... Just wondering... If this topic comes up every 6 > months or so -seems like there is a "need" for this sort of thing. > Wonder why it has not been implemented yet? Especially if as you say > the system calls are out there already to do it -when you know the > right commands to type in. Numerous projects have been started to try to implement this, go dig around, they might still exist. > Just curious... In my never ending quest to make Linux accessible to the > masses > :-) It turns out that the masses never build their own kernels, nor do they need to. The act of building kernels is quite rare for the majority of Linux users, and rightly so. Hopefully the book I pointed you at will help explain how to do this properly for anyone who wishes to do this task (it's not a simple single-step process at all.) good luck, greg k-h