Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

Nicholas Wourms (nwourms@netscape.net)
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:22:48 -0500


Flavio Stanchina wrote:
> On Sunday 03 November 2002 21:38, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>
>
>>Stop whining, 2.5 kernels are development kernels -> not *expected* to
>>work %100!
>
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but we're here to work out the problems. That's
> one of the major meanings of "development", in my experience.
>
> I was bitten too: I loaded my 2.4.19 configuration and looked through most
> options, but I overlooked this keyboard/mouse thing. I think it's not
> turned on by default if you load an existing configuration, which is
> probably not what we want.
>

This is true, but if you are going to make a report, make a
report, don't advocate changing something which works for
most as it stands. From the subject, one got the idea that
people wanted to do some willy-nilly rearranging of the
configure options. The real issue here is that you really
should *not* be copying 2.4 .config's over to a 2.5 tree.
That way you'll be forced to go through all the options and
get the proper "default" options for your platform enabled
automatically.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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