In article <linux.kernel.20000213221117.A6463@dungeon.inka.de>,
Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> wrote:
>editing .config is my prefered way to configure the kernel.
>i remove lines i don't like, run "make oldconfig" to add these
>lines with different parameters and let the kernel do cleanups.
>
>but now i noticed, in new 2.3.* kernels .config contains the comment
>"don't edit". i wonder why, it always worked very fine this way.
Because it's machine generated, and any fancy formatting or
comments that you put in will be toasted as soon as you run
any of the tools [1]
I do that with all the config files that Mastodon's admintool
understands -- people can still hand-edit their files, but any
commentary will go *poof* as soon as admintool is run again.
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david parsons \bi/ [1: at least that's my guess]
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