Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:11:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:11:34 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-043-188.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.43.188]:21169 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:11:20 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Alex Bligh - linux-kernel Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ? Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:15:49 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <2006875340.1012946564@[195.224.237.69]> <3C605910.6060907@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <3C605910.6060907@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On February 5, 2002 11:13 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote: > > > > > I would be surprised if there is anyone on this list > > who has not lost at some point either the .config, the > > kysms, or something similar associated with at least > > one build they've made. > > > > > Sure. And people have lost their root filesystems due to "rm -rf /". > That doesn't mean we build the entire (real) root filesystem into the kernel. Well, it seems to be down to you and Arjan aguing that this usability improvement isn't needed, vs quite a few *users* who are complaining about the current state of things, as well they should because it's less good than it could be. -- Daniel - 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/