Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:50:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:50:34 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-038-235.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.38.235]:48017 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:50:23 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Mike Touloumtzis Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ? Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:54:30 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Alex Bligh - linux-kernel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To:

<20020207203451.GE26826@bluemug.com> In-Reply-To: <20020207203451.GE26826@bluemug.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 7, 2002 09:34 pm, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: > Some possible available avenues of argument for you are: I think you're just arguing for the sake of argument, which basically sums up all the arguments we've seen against this. Let me put it in simple terms: you've got an alarm clock, haven't you? When you set the alarm, you don't need to have any little light on the front that tells you the alarm is set, do you? Because, after all you're not stupid, you know you set it. And you can always get out of bed and look at the position of the switch, right? (I hope I just demonstrated the difference between reducto ad absurdum and 'just plain silly'.) -- 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/