linux-kernel - Re: kernel autoconfig option?

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:35:41 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Mark Shelby <mshelby1@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel autoconfig option?

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.

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