From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934040AbXGLSqy (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:46:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756940AbXGLSqp (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:46:45 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.180]:24014 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756558AbXGLSqo (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:46:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fyRJU0n5H8P2w7XdtKF6eQZuk+lkJ5OpBpHdR2/NU8u90KO2ue9pRXzQEDKQWpE7YSgEs0xgj216zhiQMnJJJDPNMz2w4/V42gtLy4Ryq08Q5Gwf8zFHqspprnmDbxgfi0zRjlkiALNezf4OchpL6ffF6Hv5b0KHrZ5UCjbMSww= Message-ID: <78ecab220707121146q577536c2w73c7a4dc6086b17@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:46:38 -0400 From: "Mark Shelby" To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" Subject: Re: kernel autoconfig option? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <11610.1184265341@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <78ecab220707120718q7cfcff43u66f80711c7ec1005@mail.gmail.com> <11610.1184265341@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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. > >