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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:25:18 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:53:24PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 	* The `vitality' flag is gone from the language.  Instead, the 
> 	  autoprober detects the type of your root filesystem and forces
> 	  its symbol to Y.

This seems like a backwards step.  What's the reasoning for breaking the
ability to configure the kernel for a completely different machine to the
one that you're running the configuration/build on?

Answers including Aunt Tillies or Penelopes won't be accepted. 8)

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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