Re: Patch available: menuconfig-init.2185

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:12:45 -0600


Hi Matthew,

> Don't we just need to ensure that arch/xxx/defconfig refers suitably to
> all configuration variables?

That would work. But it is ugly and fragile. arch/*/defconfig would
need to have dozens of unused subordinate variables. Whenever
someone added any variable to any Config.in, they would have to patch 8
defconfig files too, and that is not a viable maintainance strategy.

Regards,

Michael Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"
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