Re: [ANNOUNCE] [patch] kksymoops, in-kernel symbolic oopser, 2.5.38-B0

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 14:52:00 EST

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> hm, then what is the standard way to make a new kernel option default-Y?

There is none.

In fact, there _cannot_ be any these days, since all recent kernrels have
stopped using defconfig entirely, and favour using /etc/kernel-config
instead (making it much easier to have per-machine default
configurations).

> At least for the development kernel, a default-enabled kksymoops sounds
> like the right way to go.

We can ask people to enable it if they can't get their oops reports
together (and whether they get their oops reports in shape by using the
user-space ksymoops or the kernel version really doesn't matter).

                Linus

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