Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> [cc: trimmed]
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:18:06AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Personally I don't care about Config dependency checking... they are
>>not modified often enough to affect me, and even if they did, dependency
>>checking based on changes to Config files can get ugly, AFAICS. I just
>>do a "bk -r co -Sq" and am done with it...
>
> I care a lot about Config dependency checking, and you are not within the
> group of people that I care about in this respect.
>
> kernel-hackers has no problem realising that a "make oldconfig" is needed.
>
> But I care about NN that follows 2.6 development, and update his/her
> tree each time a new version is posted at kernel.org.
> This group of people needs dependency checking on Config files -
> as can be seen by the number of reports that boils down to
> "run make oldconfig".
The kernel is written for people with a clue. For people without a
clue, they should use a vendor kernel or ESR's Aunt-Tillie-friendly system.
Dumbing-down the kernel is never the right answer.
Jeff
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