Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267561AbTGVT1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:27:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270876AbTGVT1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:27:42 -0400 Received: from 64-60-248-67.cust.telepacific.net ([64.60.248.67]:18215 "EHLO mx.rackable.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267561AbTGVTZi (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:25:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1D91F0.2020900@rackable.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:35:12 -0700 From: Samuel Flory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Christoph Hellwig , James Simmons , Roman Zippel , Charles Lepple , michaelm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz Subject: Re: Make menuconfig broken References: <20030722191746.A13975@infradead.org> <20030722191646.GB2003@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20030722191646.GB2003@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2003 19:40:35.0718 (UTC) FILETIME=[1EFD8A60:01C35089] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1280 Lines: 43 Sam Ravnborg wrote: >On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:17:46PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >>If you really want that do it a a separate make updateconfig script instead >>of bloating make oldconfig. >> >> > >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 > > 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. -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/