Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161136AbVIPIwJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:52:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161137AbVIPIwJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:52:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.cs.aau.dk ([130.225.194.6]:53421 "EHLO smtp.cs.aau.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161136AbVIPIwI (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:52:08 -0400 Message-ID: <432A874F.7040806@cs.aau.dk> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:50:23 +0200 From: Emmanuel Fleury User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel References: <20050916083200.28972.qmail@web51010.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050916083200.28972.qmail@web51010.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 21 Ahmad, as far as I understood, your spirit is more or less to: - Drop automagically all the hardware which is for sure NOT here - Propose to the user to include the hardware which is detected - Leave as default the rest of the choices (i.e. the choices that might be uncertain: fs, protocols, ...) Therefore, "make autoconfig" is a quick first run through the .config with the help of all the scripts stored in scripts/autoconfig/. Regards -- Emmanuel Fleury Step #1 in programming: understand people. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/