Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:59:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:59:25 -0400 Received: from pD9E236A6.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.226.54.166]:51369 "EHLO hawkeye.luckynet.adm") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:59:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 07:03:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Thunder from the hill X-X-Sender: thunder@hawkeye.luckynet.adm To: Toon van der Pas cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] make localconfig In-Reply-To: <20020825145020.A15128@vdpas.hobby.nl> Message-ID: X-Location: Potsdam-Babelsberg; Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1653 Lines: 42 Hi, On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Toon van der Pas wrote: > > If you think it's a _deadly_bad_idea_to_do_ please tell me. It is, > > after all, just an RFC, means I request you to comment on this. > > I could even ask for kernel protection for the mice. > > A serious question about your proposal then: > The .config file doesn't excusively contain information regarding > what hardware to support. It also carries a lot of information about > the functionality and the optimzations the user wishes to incorporate > in his kernel. How would localconfig deal with that? Well, the idea is to - scan the kernel messages for things that got loaded - figure the hardware configuration - figure out guessable optimizations - use the default values for the rest I don't want to decide between "y" and "n". That would go wrong. The only thing is that there *should* be a decision on whether the support is vital for boot or not, if not we compile as module. This statement is not valid for debug options, though... > BTW: Considering that you are not out of your mind (most of the > time), I admire your courage in bringing up this subject. ;-) I wonder whether that's a good thing... Thunder -- --./../...-/. -.--/---/..-/.-./..././.-../..-. .---/..-/.../- .- --/../-./..-/-/./--..-- ../.----./.-../.-.. --./../...-/. -.--/---/..- .- -/---/--/---/.-./.-./---/.--/.-.-.- --./.-/-.../.-./.././.-../.-.-.- - 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/