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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default
Date: 20 Jan 2005 00:41:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jm9ugug.fsf@bytesex.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106160130.8642.46.camel@winden.suse.de>

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> writes:

> The user does a ``make menuconfig'', and expects to see sane defaults.
> What kconfig really does is take the running kernel's configuration
> instead. This is a ad choice; it makes much more sense to take
> arch/$ARCH/defconfig.

IIRC the vanilla kernel's arch/i386/defconfig is the "this config
boots Linus' machine" configuration (or has that changed recently?).
I certainly wouldn't call that a sane default ...

For vendor kernels with a generic defconfig that makes sense though.

  Gerd

-- 
#define printk(args...) fprintf(stderr, ## args)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-19 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-18 18:41 [kbuild 0/5] Some of our patches Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-18 18:41 ` [kbuild 4/5] Include type information as module info where possible Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-19 16:14   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-20 11:54     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-30 15:56       ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-30 22:06         ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-30 22:19           ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-18 18:41 ` [kbuild 1/5] Warn when building external modules without modversions Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-18 18:41 ` [kbuild 5/5] Dont include absolute filenames in binaries Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-18 18:41 ` [kbuild 3/5] Add cloneconfig target Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-18 18:41 ` [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-18 20:15   ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-19 17:51     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-19 18:18       ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-19 18:42         ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2005-01-19 19:27           ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-19 23:41           ` Gerd Knorr [this message]

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