Subject: Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:15:39 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20020114145035.E17522@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Jan 14, 2002 02:50:35 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> "Crap." Melvin thinks.  "I don't remember what kind of network card I
> compiled in.  Am I going to have to open this puppy up just to eyeball
> the hardware?" Doing that would take time Melvin was planning to spend

So he builds a kernel with modular setups just like the vendor kernel. The
existing module configuration and setup data that worked with the old
kernel keeps working and he has time to read up on his technique and get
laid.

I just don't buy your examples. Eric all I can think is that you have seriously 
weird relatives.

Alan
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