Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:45:50 +0000 (GMT), 
John Bradford <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Why don't we introduce a make allworkingmodules config, which compiles
>everything as modules, except for the things that are broken as
>modules, (for example IDE in the current 2.5.x tree would be compiled
>in).

cat > .force_default <<EOF
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
EOF
make allmodconfig 

That used to work, until 2.5.48.  Being able to force selected options
and have the rest of the options default to all Y or all M was
extremely useful.  What a pity that Kconfig removed this facility.