Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe

[kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

root@chaos.analogic.com (Richard B. Johnson)  wrote on 25.11.02 in <Pine.LNX.3.95.1021125125850.4431B-100000@chaos.analogic.com>:

> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dennis Grant wrote:
>
> This is the linux-kernel list.

Perfectly true.

> Nothing you said has anything to
> do with the linux-kernel.

Utter nonsense.

>Various distributions have various
> kinds of installation menus. These are not anything that have
> anything to do with the kernel.

And they're totally irrelevant to this.

> Your tale of woe just shows that you are unfamiliar with
> whatever Linux Distribution you are using and, your expectations
> that somebody here should hear about it on this list shows that you
> don't know what "kernel" means.

Your answer seems to indicate that you never compiled a Linux kernel in  
your life. Now, I do not believe that you really didn't, but if I were  
judging *only* from this reply, that conclusion would be inescapable.

Incidentally, I suspect his problems would mostly be solved by including  
the autoconfigurator into Kconfig - not quite what he envisioned, but  
probably a better solution.

Oh, and for the database - at least the LHD seems to be pretty close to  
his description.

Welcome to my killfile.

MfG Kai