Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel

From: Emmanuel Fleury
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 03:22:34 EST


Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
>
> How about the idea that we have a .hwconfig file and we do `make
> hwconfig' to generate it? So normal filesystems and network stack
> stuff don't belong to hwconfig.
>
> .hwconfig file merely stores the result from auto hardware detection.

Well, at the end you just want to have one .config file with everything
inside. If I follow your logic we also should have a .fsconfig, a
.netconfig, a .audioconfig, ... and so on.

So, working on the .config seems nice to me.

Simplicity is good ! ^_^

Regards
--
Emmanuel Fleury

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-- Groucho Marx
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