Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 05:55:11 EST


On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:45:50 +0000 (GMT),
John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> wrote:
>Why don't we introduce a make allworkingmodules config, which compiles
>everything as modules, except for the things that are broken as
>modules, (for example IDE in the current 2.5.x tree would be compiled
>in).

cat > .force_default <<EOF
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
EOF
make allmodconfig

That used to work, until 2.5.48. Being able to force selected options
and have the rest of the options default to all Y or all M was
extremely useful. What a pity that Kconfig removed this facility.

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