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Subject: Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Select the profile and then fixup the config the normal way.
>>
>> If what the admin wants is incompatible with the profile, admin doesn't
>> select the profile.
>
> Thats ugly - "distro except..." is a standard thing you ask users to do
> for debugging.
>
> However providing you separate the initial profile from the later tools
> it simply becomes
>
> make distroconfig
> 	[cp /etc/system-kconfig(.$ARCH?) .config
> 	 make oldconfig]
>
> make menuconfig (if you want to customise)
>
> In addition the make oldconfig means you can ship a deliberately
> incomplete distroconfig and get the user asked some bits.

exactly what I was fumbling to describe, thanks.

David Lang