Re: Automatic Configuration of a Kernel

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:12:14AM -0700, Ahmad Reza Cheraghi wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Lee Revell <[email protected]> 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. 
> 
> 
OK, What he meant was: "Make it a as patch to, say, 2.6.14-rc1 and distribute it so that people can download and apply more easily, compared to a bigger tarbala"
cheers,
Masoud
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