Subject: Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:04:03 -0400
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On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:03 -0700, David Lang wrote:
> another advantage of having an auto-config for the kernel is that people 
> who are experimenting may have the auto-config find hardware that they 
> didn't realize they had (or they didn't realize that support had been 
> added)
> 
> I know that most of my kernels don't have support for everything the 
> motherboards have on them (mostly I don't care much about the other 
> features, but in some cases they weren't supported, or weren't worth the 
> hassle of figureing the correct config for when I started, and I've never 
> gone back to try and figure it out)

Why does this have to be in the kernel again?  Isn't this exactly what
you get with a fully modular config and hotplug?

Lee

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