Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@netscape.net>]

Flavio Stanchina wrote:
> On Sunday 03 November 2002 21:38, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> 
> 
>>Stop whining, 2.5 kernels are development kernels -> not *expected* to
>>work %100!
> 
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but we're here to work out the problems. That's 
> one of the major meanings of "development", in my experience.
> 
> I was bitten too: I loaded my 2.4.19 configuration and looked through most 
> options, but I overlooked this keyboard/mouse thing. I think it's not 
> turned on by default if you load an existing configuration, which is 
> probably not what we want.
> 

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, one got the idea that 
people wanted to do some willy-nilly rearranging of the 
configure options.  The real issue here is that you really 
should *not* be copying 2.4 .config's over to a 2.5 tree. 
That way you'll be forced to go through all the options and 
get the proper "default" options for your platform enabled 
automatically.

Cheers,
Nicholas