Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261985AbUKDAQc (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:16:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262023AbUKDANN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:13:13 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:64397 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261971AbUKDAM3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:12:29 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 01:04:06 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Tom Rini cc: blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, julian@sektor37.de, mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] kbuild: fix crossbuild base config In-Reply-To: <20041103183415.GH381@smtp.west.cox.net> Message-ID: References: <20041102232001.370174C0BC@zion.localdomain> <20041103174856.GG381@smtp.west.cox.net> <20041103183415.GH381@smtp.west.cox.net> 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 Content-Length: 802 Lines: 23 Hi, On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Tom Rini wrote: > How about how easy it is to create a totally bogus config for any arch? I'm open to suggestions, but this patch doesn't solve the problem. > > You can misconfigure a kernel > > in native compiles as well, this patch solves the wrong problem. > > I disagree. This solves the "why did the kernel decide to look at > /boot/config when it really should have known better" problem. In a lot of other cases it does make sense. The kconfig core shouldn't behave differently if we are cross compiling. bye, Roman - 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/