From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make menuconfig broken
Date: 23 Jul 2003 22:53:39 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfn3lj$lpe$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0307222129070.17797-100000@phoenix.infradead.org
In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307222129070.17797-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
|
| > Well there are 2 issues here:
| >
| > 1) How to handle "make oldconfig" on 2.4 config files. Which may not be
| > fixable in a manner that doesn't involve really ugly code.
| >
| > 2) That make menuconfig|xconfig on a clean 2.6 tree results in a kernel
| > that doesn't have console support. This will be something that will
| > come up over and over again in the future, and does not require ugly
| > hacks to fix.
|
| Instead of hacking up a oldconfig why not have the system detect old
| config files and refuse to build it and tell the user to start from
| scratch. I think this is acceptable.
I would say defconfig first, then menuconfig, but whatever. If you can't
do it right, don't do it at all. The problems introduced by almost-right
conversions are often harder to find than starting from default.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-23 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-21 16:35 2.6.0-test1 won't go further than "uncompressing" on a p1/32MB pc michaelm
2003-07-21 16:49 ` James Simmons
2003-07-21 17:02 ` Charles Lepple
2003-07-22 0:37 ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 0:42 ` Make menuconfig broken Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 7:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-07-22 9:50 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-22 13:24 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-07-22 16:47 ` James Simmons
2003-07-22 18:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-22 19:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-07-22 19:35 ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 19:46 ` Charles Lepple
2003-07-22 20:30 ` James Simmons
2003-07-23 22:53 ` bill davidsen [this message]
2003-07-23 22:48 ` bill davidsen
2003-07-22 18:00 ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 19:21 ` michaelm
2003-07-22 2:49 ` 2.6.0-test1 won't go further than "uncompressing" on a p1/32MB pc Thomas Molina
2008-02-02 17:29 make menuconfig broken Michal Zachar
2008-02-02 19:50 ` Sam Ravnborg
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