Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

Jos Hulzink
2002-11-03T16:13:38Z

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