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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:22:35 +0100
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On January 15, 2002 08:37 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2002 03:25 pm, Russell King wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> He didn't.  If you want to do that, run "make menuconfig" instead of "make 
> autoconfigure".

I detect a slight lack of symmetry here, shouldn't it be "make autoconfig"?
Pardon me if this has been beaten to^W^W discussed above.

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Daniel
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