Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> [cc: trimmed]
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:18:06AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Personally I don't care about Config dependency checking... they are
>>not modified often enough to affect me, and even if they did, dependency
>>checki
Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>Which implies that the equivalent of "source drivers/net/Config*"
>>(wildcarding) in Roman's system would be useful. Or maybe "source
>>drivers/net" and it
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> But there is a good reason why they do it.
> Take a look at dirvers/video/Config.in for example.
> See the size of the big if's. They span several pages if not the whole file.
> Why they do this is simple. Only check for PCI once, and group all
> PCI stuff there.
> With the s
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So instead: how about just "Config" for the main per-directory
> configuration file, with sub-config's being "Config.3c5xx" and
> "Config.rrunner".
I like it. I'm glad Sam mentioned sub-configs such as Config.3c5xx,
that's something that was discussed a while ago [and a
Brendan J Simon wrote:
> Simple and boring but how about "Config2.in" or "Config-2.in" ???
no offense intended, but:
ug...
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Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>Some things made me go eww (but on the whole details):
>>
>> - I'd prefer the Config.in name, since this has nothing to do with
>> building, and everything to do with configuration.
>
>
> Fine with me.
> (jgarzik, I think you're
Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>Well, my basic preference is
>>
>>* something other than Config.new (the original name in your config system)
>>* something other than Config.in
>>
>>I think it is a
Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> I'm still not happy at least for the ".config does not exist" case. Since
Easy, maintain the 2.4 behavior, which is sane :)
Jeff
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Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> AFAICS, "quiet" only means the same thing as the traditional "make
> oldconfig", but suppressing questions where the answers are known. (Which
> I think is fine)
yeah, that's fine with m
Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>One cosmetic thing I mentioned to Roman, Config.new needs to be changed
>>to something better, like conf.in or build.conf or somesuch.
>
>
> I agree. (But I'm not partic
One cosmetic thing I mentioned to Roman, Config.new needs to be changed
to something better, like conf.in or build.conf or somesuch.
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Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/lkc-0.5.tar.gz you can find the
> latest version of the new config system. Besides various small bug
> fixes, it includes the following changes:
> - Improved mouse interface of qconf
> - qconf isn't build if QT isn't available
> - "
ocs-latest/cdl/reference.html
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disgreed with him :) The kernel
absolutely MUST have some in-kernel configuration currently. And
mconfig is clearly a better tool.
If we want to migrate to a point where all kernel configuration is
maintained solely outside the kernel, I actually support that. But as a
SEPARATE migration step. I d
the understanding.
Or take a look at a BSD or Linux Web page in one of the oriental
languages... even it contains English quite often.
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s problem. There aren't even any clean ways to separate
> easy cases from hard ones.
No good solutions? Then how come I use "make oldconfig" every day...
Are we to assume from your long missive that you are turning the
possible into the impossible? :)
IMHO "make oldconf
ly abused as a socially
> acceptable way to attack people whose opinions or style one disliked.
frequently abused, yes. socially acceptable? doubtful.
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"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI: arch/ppc/configs/power3_defconfig
>arch/arm/def-configs/footbridge arch/arm/def-configs/rpc arch/arm/def-configs/lart
>arch/arm/def-configs/shark
typo, that should be ...YMFPCI.
maybe you could add soundex to catch misspel
ngeLogs is clearly not to be touched. Various
documentation has to be examined manually to determine if its outdated
or not. There is no 100% automatic way to do this.
Jeff
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e of you with slow machines would try running
> with fast mode on and seeing if that addresses the sluggishness.
I assume that, eventually there will be no slow mode or fast mode
distinction... just a single fast mode. Right? :)
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