From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Cc: John Stoffel <stoffel@casc.com>,
cate@dplanet.ch, Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>,
CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 03:46:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010503034620.A27880@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010503030431.A25141@thyrsus.com> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105030907470.28400-100000@cola.teststation.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105030907470.28400-100000@cola.teststation.com>; from urban@teststation.com on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:34:20AM +0200
Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>:
> Then it must somehow handle me trying to (incorrectly) answer X86=Y,
> SMP=Y, RTC=N in some order?
What it does is (a) always start with a valid config, and (b) not permit
any change that would make it invalid.
So, you froze X86 at startup. SMP gets asked early. If you specify
SMP=y, and then later try to set RTC=n, the configurator will not let
you do it and will explain why. At that point if you want you can go
back and change SMP.
> Perhaps I have missed something, but I really prefer the old oldconfig
> over the new oldconfig.
What's to prefer? You get essentially the same behavior unless you start
with a broken config.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were
no religion in it.
-- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-03 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-27 23:35 CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-29 15:12 ` John Stoffel
2001-04-29 22:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-29 22:43 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 7:52 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-04-30 8:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 16:17 ` volodya
2001-04-30 16:28 ` John Stoffel
2001-04-30 17:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 19:16 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-04-30 19:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-01 9:23 ` Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-05-01 16:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-01 21:35 ` Olivier Galibert
2001-05-01 22:26 ` Tom Rini
2001-05-02 13:32 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-05-02 17:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
[not found] ` <200 <3AF00C53.5EEE8E01@math.ethz.ch>
2001-05-02 20:12 ` John Stoffel
2001-05-03 7:04 ` Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 7:34 ` Urban Widmark
2001-05-03 7:46 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-05-03 14:33 ` Juan Quintela
2001-05-03 16:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 22:20 ` Mike Castle
2001-05-03 12:32 ` Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Horst von Brand
2001-05-03 12:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 13:24 ` Horst von Brand
2001-05-03 14:40 ` Juan Quintela
2001-05-03 16:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 16:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 17:36 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <15084.12830.973535.153706@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
2001-04-29 22:41 ` CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 1:36 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-04-30 1:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 2:13 ` [kbuild-devel] " John Cowan
2001-04-30 2:24 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 5:41 ` David Emory Watson
2001-04-30 5:50 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 6:12 ` David Emory Watson
2001-04-30 6:53 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 7:11 ` [OT] " Jeff Garzik
2001-04-30 7:17 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 15:54 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 10:57 ` John Cowan
2001-04-30 14:25 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-04-30 13:30 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-30 13:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-30 7:05 ` volodya
2001-04-30 7:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-30 7:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 9:09 ` [Moving rapidly offtopic] " Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-04-30 16:16 ` nick
2001-04-30 17:12 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-30 17:20 ` [OT] " Jeff Garzik
2001-04-30 17:25 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-30 19:44 ` [kbuild-devel] " Gerhard Mack
2001-04-30 19:47 ` nick
2001-04-30 3:26 ` volodya
2001-04-30 8:13 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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