Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio.stanchina@tin.it>]

On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:22, Nicholas Wourms wrote:

> This is true, but if you are going to make a report, make a
> report, don't advocate changing something which works for
> most as it stands.  From the subject, [...]

I agree, the subject is misleading.

> [...] The real issue here is that you really
> should *not* be copying 2.4 .config's over to a 2.5 tree.

Why souldn't I be able to do that? I was hoping that options missing from 
the loaded config would be set to the default value, which in the case of 
standard AT keyboard and PS/2 mouse is "yes, of course I want that".

> That way you'll be forced to go through all the options and
> get the proper "default" options for your platform enabled
> automatically.

How long will it take to go through all the options, your old config file 
at hand, and check that everything you need is there? How easy would it be 
to make a mistake?

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