Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750944AbVIOIMR (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:12:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751026AbVIOIMR (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:12:17 -0400 Received: from web51005.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.136]:11605 "HELO web51005.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750913AbVIOIMP (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:12:15 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=bVmst/BquEgFewhyzIO5miuxKE85d1MzhFjW+2PpkVvPp3OAHW5rN+9ge7j05NgumCRgzDRGLhP87+C9m2eHmjvZyQ/xY3Kb33U8hVtRqefzQJxEWMTSjePdryY34JIJwK3XcAgedIjjXamDQt6nHC1KEUQOWfyl7+AbtbmGfUk= ; Message-ID: <20050915081214.53141.qmail@web51005.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:12:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Ahmad Reza Cheraghi Subject: Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel To: Lee Revell , Daniel Thaler Cc: David Lang , Hua Zhong , marekw1977@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1126757808.13893.125.camel@mindpipe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1113 Lines: 39 --- Lee Revell wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 05:37 +0200, Daniel Thaler > wrote: > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > Why does this have to be in the kernel again? > Isn't this exactly what > > > you get with a fully modular config and hotplug? > > > > It doesn't go in the kernel. If I understand > correctly, it's a script that is > > invoked by 'make autoconfig'. Note that I didn't > read the patch, because it's a > > .tgz on a website and I couldn't be bothered to > download it. > > Oh, sorry. Then read that as "what's the point"? > > Lee > It does go in the Kernel. The files are all kept in the directory /scripts/kconfig/. And I changed a little bit the Makefile and the conf.c in the /scrips/kconfig. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com - 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/