Re: Make menuconfig broken

Samuel Flory
2003-07-22T19:27:42Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:17:46PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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>>If you really want that do it a a separate make updateconfig script instead
>>of bloating make oldconfig.
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>updateconfig is definetely more acceptable than bloating oldconfig.
>But would we end up with lots of hacks - and where do we stop.
>Do we want to go the whole way back to a 2.0 .config and do an
>acceptable .config using:
>make updateconfig
>
>Or is this limited to 2.4 -> 2.6?
>
> Sam
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>

Well there are 2 issues here:

1) How to handle "make oldconfig" on 2.4 config files. Which may not be
fixable in a manner that doesn't involve really ugly code.

2) That make menuconfig|xconfig on a clean 2.6 tree results in a kernel
that doesn't have console support. This will be something that will
come up over and over again in the future, and does not require ugly
hacks to fix.

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Sam Flory <sflory@rackable.com>