Re: Make menuconfig broken

Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-22T18:02:47Z

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:47:04PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> What about the keyboard being built in. People will still not set that.

Why not? With this change they will get asked for keyboard support now.
Now that they actually are asked we can expect them to give the proper
answer.

> The proper solution would be to alter the build system on a default build
> to scan the .config file for CONFIG_PC_KEYB, CONFIG_MOUSE, CONFIG_BUSMOUSE,
> CONFIG_PSMOUSE etc. Then convert them to what is needed for 2.6.X. The same
> for framebuffer console stuff. We can scan for CONFIG_FB and if
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not present set it. We only would need to do
> this for a default build.

If you really want that do it a a separate make updateconfig script instead
of bloating make oldconfig.