Re: Shouldn't SMP be an option?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Apr 1998 01:05:48 GMT

Followup to: <199804041858.MAA04048@duracef.shout.net>
By author: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> > 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.
>
> Check out Documentation/smart-config.txt. :) It went in about 2.1.77.
> It works great for me and I haven't seen any bug reports against it.
>

Yes, but I think a lot of things still #include <linux/config.h>,
which AFAIK is the "old style".

-hpa

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