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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:12:17 +0200
From: Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@cs.aau.dk>
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Subject: Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel
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Chris White wrote:
> 
> Couldn't one pull up info from /etc/fstab for filesystems?  And if it was 
> network mounts, the appropriate configuration file?  I wonder how viable that 
> would be.  As far as network protocols, who knows...

I guess the /etc/mtab is more trustable. But, you not anymore speaking
about hardware detection here... I think that everything which is beyond
hardware detection is purely magic and shouldn't be trusted because for
one type of detection if it fit few users, it won't fit many.

And anyway, in the case you are considering, make oldconfig is probably
the one to use.

Regards
-- 
Emmanuel Fleury

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
  -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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