Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161126AbVIPIcH (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:32:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161129AbVIPIcH (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:32:07 -0400 Received: from web51010.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.39.129]:32118 "HELO web51010.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161126AbVIPIcF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:32:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GvDIi2vcODS7BX5nipcs3hUm7x4+TRgfl/IHUOZ7TE0/QUYQPGpYHntpfQD08/v3CWAj9hCv3d2sksOQvKi78Pxyos/mSzBNBSjfqppAfevrc3jhlLq8g98Zu3qOqK55z4Oqa9Ddo98qLTdD3S+Sze7F2NIBGQJERZ8geeRg/pM= ; Message-ID: <20050916083200.28972.qmail@web51010.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 01:32:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Ahmad Reza Cheraghi Subject: Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel To: Emmanuel Fleury , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <432A8026.5060509@cs.aau.dk> 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: 1102 Lines: 39 --- Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > > > How about the idea that we have a .hwconfig file > and we do `make > > hwconfig' to generate it? So normal filesystems > and network stack > > stuff don't belong to hwconfig. > > > > .hwconfig file merely stores the result from auto > hardware detection. > > Well, at the end you just want to have one .config > file with everything > inside. If I follow your logic we also should have a > .fsconfig, a > .netconfig, a .audioconfig, ... and so on. > > So, working on the .config seems nice to me. > > Simplicity is good ! ^_^ > Yes thats true. It will be a hard also, for those Users which doesn't have that much experience for the configuration of a Kernel. __________________________________ 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/