From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 10:41:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 10:41:08 -0400 Received: from 205-CORU-X5.libre.retevision.es ([62.83.56.205]:13736 "HELO trasno.mitica") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 10:40:54 -0400 To: Horst von Brand Cc: Alan Cox , stoffel@casc.com (John Stoffel), esr@thyrsus.com, cate@dplanet.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (CML2), kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] In-Reply-To: <200105031324.f43DOeaA030953@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> X-Url: http://www.lfcia.org/~quintela From: Juan Quintela In-Reply-To: <200105031324.f43DOeaA030953@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> Date: 03 May 2001 16:40:30 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "horst" == Horst von Brand writes: Hi horst> Hell, I had to rebuild my .config files from scratch a few times already horst> because of wild changes in the hardware on which the resulting kernels horst> would have to run, its not _that_ big a deal to have to perhaps have to do horst> it once each time a new stable kernel series starts or so. Not a option. You can have to had _several_ configurations around (here at MandrakeSoft we have normal/smp/enterprise) and we have basically everything that can be compiled as modules compiled as modules. Add to that that we build the alpha (normal&smp) from the same package. We want to add more architectures to the rpm. Are you really serious that _answering_ all the options for several kernels is an option? I don't think so. And the actual olconfig target works well for me (tm). I don't see the point to rewrote the configuration language and made it _less_ powerfull for no good reason. Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy