Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161141AbVIPJTE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:19:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161143AbVIPJTE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:19:04 -0400 Received: from web51001.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.132]:56411 "HELO web51001.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161141AbVIPJTC (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:19:02 -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=YQYp9QgFxzIVM/CfeMWI7zx0sSMhoEz2jdSqluc0P2vaJVT0dehIQGj2hcrdtlEEZGj3cdaWTNGbZm+elY1TxyrgxcG59C5hvw9xXUMDTZYQ4EuFnNd8+oqYaWj/7UD4wvt6gH5j0TI32qmU49xUYDOk1g04djc8HjMm/9zhYx0= ; Message-ID: <20050916091901.33375.qmail@web51001.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:19:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Ahmad Reza Cheraghi Subject: Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel To: Emmanuel Fleury , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <432A874F.7040806@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: 1766 Lines: 55 --- Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > 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/. > Yes your right about that. But I want to tell why I came to this Idea of doing that. As I was trying to configurate a Kernel for the first time but without any success. Then I thought about it, why this cannot be automatically. So for the first thought, my spirit of doing this, was for those who doesn't know e.g. what the option "Enable loadable module support" means and if they have to choose that or not. But right now I know that it is not possible to do all the things automatically(like the filesystem, Protokolls...). And that is the reason why I make a Framework, so everybody(I mean the experts) can give theire suggestion what isthe best way to answering, a optione like mention above comes, automatically. So if someone wants to use a new kernel didn't end up desperate and regrated using Linux(a new Kernel). Regards Ahmad Reza __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 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/