From: "Mark Shelby" <mshelby1@gmail.com>
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel autoconfig option?
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:46:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78ecab220707121146q577536c2w73c7a4dc6086b17@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11610.1184265341@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Ha Ha! That's pretty funny!
And having hosed a system or two in my time I can totally relate...
On 7/12/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:18:55 EDT, Mark Shelby said:
>
> > Am I just crazy, or wouldn't this idea mke a lot of sense? Wouldn't it
> > pretty much make the kernel "idiot proof" when installing from source?
>
> That's usually not the place where idiots screw up. It's stuff like
> loading an initrd that doesn't do LVM, and your / is on an LVM partition,
> or going from a kernel that used the IDE drivers to one that uses libata,
> and forgetting to fix /etc/fstab for the /dev/hd -> /dev/sd change, or ...
>
> You get the idea. At some point, you have to insist that the user's clue
> must be ----> THIS TALL in order to build their own kernel rather than going
> with what the distro installed.
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-12 14:18 Mark Shelby
2007-07-12 14:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-12 15:02 ` Mark Shelby
2007-07-12 16:14 ` Greg KH
2007-07-12 16:33 ` Mark Shelby
2007-07-12 18:56 ` Greg KH
2007-07-12 18:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-07-12 18:46 ` Mark Shelby [this message]
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