From: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 19:20:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211031920.17806.josh@stack.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021103160527.GP28803@louise.pinerecords.com>
On Sunday 03 November 2002 17:05, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > It took me about an hour to find out why my keyboard didn't work in
> > 2.5.45. Well... after all it seemed that I need to enable 4 ! options
> > inside the input configuration, just to get my default, nothing special
> > PS/2 keyboard up and running. Oh, and I didn't even have my not so fancy
> > boring default PS/2 mouse configured then. Guys, being able to configure
> > everything is nice, but with the 2.5 kernel, things are definitely
> > getting out of control IMHO.
>
> don't blame your inability to understand the consequences of copying a
> .config across ~50 kernel releases on others thank you.
I wont, as long as you don blame someone who -to prevent buggy config files-
downloaded a fresh 2.5.45 kernel, patched it with the bk-1 update and ran
make menuconfig after that, of copying .config files.
Jos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-03 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-03 17:09 Petition against kernel configuration options madness Jos Hulzink
2002-11-03 16:05 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-11-03 18:20 ` Jos Hulzink [this message]
2002-11-03 17:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-03 19:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-11-03 19:37 ` Petr Baudis
2002-11-03 20:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-11-03 22:20 ` Petr Baudis
2002-11-03 22:32 ` [PATCH] Sane defaults for the input layer configuration Petr Baudis
2002-11-03 22:25 ` Petition against kernel configuration options madness Jos Hulzink
2002-11-04 1:40 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-04 2:43 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-04 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-03 20:38 ` Arador
2002-11-03 20:40 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-11-03 21:39 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-11-03 22:04 ` Nick LeRoy
2002-11-03 21:58 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-11-03 21:59 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-03 22:18 ` Brad Hards
2002-11-04 0:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-04 13:05 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-11-03 20:38 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-11-03 20:43 ` Arador
2002-11-03 21:11 ` Flavio Stanchina
2002-11-03 21:22 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-11-03 21:48 ` Flavio Stanchina
2002-11-03 22:00 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2002-11-04 0:18 ` Werner Almesberger
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2002-11-03 20:19 Hell.Surfers
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