Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel

From: Ahmad Reza Cheraghi
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 03:12:42 EST




--- Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 05:37 +0200, Daniel Thaler
> wrote:
> > Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Why does this have to be in the kernel again?
> Isn't this exactly what
> > > you get with a fully modular config and hotplug?
> >
> > It doesn't go in the kernel. If I understand
> correctly, it's a script that is
> > invoked by 'make autoconfig'. Note that I didn't
> read the patch, because it's a
> > .tgz on a website and I couldn't be bothered to
> download it.
>
> Oh, sorry. Then read that as "what's the point"?
>
> Lee
>
It does go in the Kernel. The files are all kept in
the directory <KERNEL>/scripts/kconfig/.
And I changed a little bit the Makefile and the conf.c
in the <KERNEl>/scrips/kconfig.





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