Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Gerd Knorr
Andreas Gruenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The user does a ``make menuconfig'', and expects to see sane defaults. > What kconfig really does is take the running kernel's configuration > instead. This is a ad choice; it makes much more sense to take > arch/$ARCH/defconfig. IIRC the vanilla

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Okay, more verbose then. On your machine which is running kernel version > x you build kernel version y. You grab the version y kernel source tree, > let's say a vendor tree, which has meaningful default configurations in >

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:18, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > > > > A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source > > > > package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under > > > > /usr/src/linux is

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > > A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source > > > package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under > > > /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by default; there is no .config. User > > > does a

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 21:15, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > > A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source > > package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under > > /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 21:15, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by default;

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by default; there is no .config. User does a ``make

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:18, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: Okay, more verbose then. On your machine which is running kernel version x you build kernel version y. You grab the version y kernel source tree, let's say a vendor tree, which has meaningful default configurations in arch/$ARCH/defconfig.

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-19 Thread Gerd Knorr
Andreas Gruenbacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The user does a ``make menuconfig'', and expects to see sane defaults. What kconfig really does is take the running kernel's configuration instead. This is a ad choice; it makes much more sense to take arch/$ARCH/defconfig. IIRC the vanilla

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source > package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under > /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by default; there is no .config. User > does a ``make menuconfig'',

[kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-18 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by default; there is no .config. User does a ``make menuconfig'', which gets its default values from /boot/config-$(uname -r).

[kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-18 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by default; there is no .config. User does a ``make menuconfig'', which gets its default values from /boot/config-$(uname -r).

Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

2005-01-18 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by default; there is no .config. User does a ``make menuconfig'',