Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> Okay, more verbose then. On your machine which is running kernel version
> x you build kernel version y. You grab the version y kernel source tree,
> let's say a vendor tree, which has meaningful default configurations in
> arch/$ARCH/defconfig. The runnig kernel's configuration may also work
> for that kernel source tree, or it may not.

How is that more verbose?
Please provide an example config that worked under 2.4 but doesn't produce 
a reasonable result under 2.6.

> > So they should first try the 2.6 kernel provided by the distribution and 
> > then try compiling their own kernel. In this situation it's actually more 
> > likely that they produce a working kernel with the current behaviour, the 
> > defconfig is not a guarantee for a working kernel either.
> 
> You assume that the user is already running the kind of kernel he is
> trying to produce. Al least to me this assumption seems weird.

Why is that weird?

bye, Roman
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