From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:55:11 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11412.1038394511@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:45:50 -0000." <200211261945.gAQJjoRe000267@darkstar.example.net>
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:45:50 +0000 (GMT),
John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote:
>Why don't we introduce a make allworkingmodules config, which compiles
>everything as modules, except for the things that are broken as
>modules, (for example IDE in the current 2.5.x tree would be compiled
>in).
cat > .force_default <<EOF
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
EOF
make allmodconfig
That used to work, until 2.5.48. Being able to force selected options
and have the rest of the options default to all Y or all M was
extremely useful. What a pity that Kconfig removed this facility.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-27 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-26 19:28 Dennis Grant
2002-11-26 19:45 ` John Bradford
2002-11-27 10:55 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-11-27 12:03 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-27 12:19 ` Keith Owens
2002-11-27 19:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-27 19:14 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-11-26 20:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-26 23:21 ` Roger Gammans
2002-11-27 6:10 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-27 17:52 Dennis Grant
2002-11-27 18:01 ` Alex Riesen
2002-11-27 17:47 Mark H. Wood
[not found] <fa.gaum5rv.1j3snhh@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.ivlir9v.u14v3p@ifi.uio.no>
2002-11-27 8:43 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-11-27 10:12 ` John Bradford
2002-11-26 17:57 Dennis Grant
2002-11-26 18:11 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-11-26 18:24 ` Rusty Lynch
2002-11-26 23:46 ` Lee Leahu
2002-11-26 15:35 Dennis Grant
2002-11-26 17:01 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-11-26 17:35 ` Rusty Lynch
2002-11-26 18:04 ` Dimitrie O. Paun
2002-11-26 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-26 18:48 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-26 9:15 Thomas Hood
2002-11-25 19:30 Dennis Grant
2002-11-25 20:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-26 10:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-11-26 14:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-26 12:33 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-11-28 22:09 ` LA Walsh
2002-11-29 1:28 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-29 10:04 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-11-29 10:21 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-25 17:33 Dennis Grant
2002-11-25 18:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-25 18:58 ` Samuel Flory
2002-11-26 16:58 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-11-26 4:24 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-26 8:21 ` john slee
2002-11-26 8:35 ` Brad Hards
2002-11-26 19:59 ` Otto Wyss
2002-11-27 0:29 ` Alan Cox
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