Re: Shouldn't SMP be an option?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
4 Apr 1998 03:28:22 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980404005435.4197A-100000@hell.whitepeaks.es>
By author: ranty@soon.com
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> It's ok for a development kernel to make you edit de Makefile
> by hand, but if it is becoming stable I thing SMP shoud be an option
> in "make config/menuconfig/xconfig"
>
> Thanks for listening
>
> A linux adict
>

This was originally the case, but it caused any configuration changes
to cause too much of the kernel to be reconfigured. What it'd really
take to fix is for someone to go through and change all
#include <linux/config.h> use the new smartconfig stuff.

-hpa

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