On 11 Apr 01 at 20:15, info wrote:
>
> By the way, I thung that it is a good idea - to modify
> xconfig/meniconfig script in manner to make disable ipx if sysctl
> setted off - like in many other cross-dependance options.
Without sysctl you cannot disable Netbios propagation packet routing.
And no machine with enabled Netbios routing passes our 'you must not
participate in broadcast storms' test if it has enabled more than
one IPX frame on each interface. So you'll get disconnected from our
university net.
Petr Vandrovec
[email protected]
???, 12 ??? 2001, ? ????????? ?? ???? "Re: 2.4.3 compile error No 3", Petr Vandrovec ???????:
> On 11 Apr 01 at 20:15, info wrote:
> >
> > By the way, I thung that it is a good idea - to modify
> > xconfig/meniconfig script in manner to make disable ipx if sysctl
> > setted off - like in many other cross-dependance options.
>
> Without sysctl you cannot disable Netbios propagation packet routing.
> And no machine with enabled Netbios routing passes our 'you must not
> participate in broadcast storms' test if it has enabled more than
> one IPX frame on each interface. So you'll get disconnected from our
> university net.
> Petr Vandrovec
> [email protected]
Sorry, Petr, I can't understand your mind: my knowlege in programming
and English isn't enougth.
My user's mind was: if sysctl is needed for ipx, then:
1-st variant - to modify config script in such manner that sysctl
turned on automatically (maybe as other needable functions, if they
are) if ipx selected.
2-nd variant - to modify it in such manner that you can't select ipx
before you select sysctl
The second variant is more easy (for example: you can't select reiserfs now
if you doesn't select one of another option, I don't remember it's
name).
But the first way is more user-friendly. This is the same principle
as in rpm during installation. For example: when I select in Mandrake
installer that I want to have Klyx in my KDE, the installer
automatically select tetex, latex, ghostscript and other packages.
Because klyx can't work without them. It is very comfortable for
user.
I think that you, as kernel programmer, work with .config
directly. But I - as user - work only on level of "menu xconfig"
screen when I try to compile.
I speake only about user's friendlyness of kernel config screen, not
about frames and other programming topics. I don't know what is it at
all. It is not my user's level.