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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Cc: John Stoffel <stoffel@casc.com>,
	cate@dplanet.ch, Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>,
	CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 03:46:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010503034620.A27880@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010503030431.A25141@thyrsus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105030907470.28400-100000@cola.teststation.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105030907470.28400-100000@cola.teststation.com>; from urban@teststation.com on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:34:20AM +0200

Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>:
> Then it must somehow handle me trying to (incorrectly) answer X86=Y,
> SMP=Y, RTC=N in some order?

What it does is (a) always start with a valid config, and (b) not permit
any change that would make it invalid.

So, you froze X86 at startup.  SMP gets asked early.  If you specify 
SMP=y, and then later try to set RTC=n, the configurator will not let
you do it and will explain why.  At that point if you want you can go
back and change SMP.
 
> Perhaps I have missed something, but I really prefer the old oldconfig
> over the new oldconfig.

What's to prefer?  You get essentially the same behavior unless you start
with a broken config.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were
no religion in it.
	-- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-03  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-27 23:35 CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-29 15:12 ` John Stoffel
2001-04-29 22:35   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-29 22:43     ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 16:28     ` John Stoffel
2001-04-30 17:39       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 19:16         ` Peter Samuelson
2001-04-30 19:25           ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-01  9:23             ` Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-05-01 16:31               ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-01 21:35                 ` Olivier Galibert
2001-05-01 22:26                   ` Tom Rini
2001-05-02 13:32           ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-05-02 17:49             ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-02 20:12               ` John Stoffel
2001-05-03  7:04                 ` Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03  7:34                   ` Urban Widmark
2001-05-03  7:46                     ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-05-03 14:33                       ` Juan Quintela
2001-05-03 16:16                         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 22:20                       ` Mike Castle
2001-05-03 12:32                 ` Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Horst von Brand
2001-05-03 12:47                   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 13:24                     ` Horst von Brand
2001-05-03 14:40                       ` Juan Quintela
2001-05-03 16:07                       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 16:04                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 17:36                     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-30  1:36   ` CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." Anton Altaparmakov
2001-04-30  1:41     ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30  2:13       ` [kbuild-devel] " John Cowan
2001-04-30  2:24       ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30  5:41         ` David Emory Watson
2001-04-30  5:50           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30  6:12             ` David Emory Watson
2001-04-30  6:53               ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30  7:11                 ` [OT] " Jeff Garzik
2001-04-30  7:17                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 14:25                   ` Kai Henningsen
2001-04-30 15:54                   ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 10:57                 ` John Cowan
2001-04-30 13:30               ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-30 13:29             ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-30  7:05         ` volodya
2001-04-30  7:23           ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30  7:40             ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30  9:09               ` [Moving rapidly offtopic] " Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-04-30 16:16               ` nick
2001-04-30 17:12                 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 17:20                   ` [OT] " Jeff Garzik
2001-04-30 17:25                     ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-30 19:44                   ` [kbuild-devel] " Gerhard Mack
2001-04-30 19:47                     ` nick
2001-04-30  3:26       ` volodya
2001-04-30  7:52     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-04-30  8:03       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 16:17         ` volodya
2001-04-30  8:13       ` Anton Altaparmakov
     [not found] ` <15084.12830.973535.153706@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2001-04-29 22:41   ` Eric S. Raymond

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