Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [TOY/PATCH] Phat Config | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 12 Feb 1999 09:48:05 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Nicholas" == Nicholas J Leon <nicholas@binary9.net> writes:
Nicholas> Oh, I know what make oldconfig is. Use it all the time. This Nicholas> patch differs in that is defaults to Y for everything it Nicholas> doesn't know about. If you have no .config and run make Nicholas> oldconfig, you get the defaults from arch/*/defconfig and Nicholas> then basically "random values"[1] for everything else. If Nicholas> you do the same with make phatconfig, the random values are Nicholas> replaced with Y's. You get _everything_ included, but honor Nicholas> the default values in arch/*/defconfig.
Thats a _very_ bad idea IMHO. Some of the options may not have made it into arch/<foo>/defconfig and some of these new options you definately don't want, some of them may even break things for you badly or maybe hoas your filesystem (ie. if say we had a new experimental option for ext2). A lot of people tend to just accept options blindly and setting everything to yes is a bad idea.
Jes
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