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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
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Subject: Re: Make menuconfig broken
Date: 23 Jul 2003 22:53:39 GMT
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307222129070.17797-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>,
James Simmons  <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
| 
| >   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.
| 
| Instead of hacking up a oldconfig why not have the system detect old 
| config files and refuse to build it and tell the user to start from 
| scratch. I think this is acceptable.

I would say defconfig first, then menuconfig, but whatever. If you can't
do it right, don't do it at all. The problems introduced by almost-right
conversions are often harder to find than starting from default.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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