From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 03:46:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 03:46:31 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:45062 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 03:46:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 03:46:20 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Urban Widmark Cc: John Stoffel , cate@dplanet.ch, Peter Samuelson , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem Message-ID: <20010503034620.A27880@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Urban Widmark , John Stoffel , cate@dplanet.ch, Peter Samuelson , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010503030431.A25141@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from urban@teststation.com on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:34:20AM +0200 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Urban Widmark : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.