HEADS UP: Custom config and HEAD

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Aug 3 16:59:29 PDT 2005


On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:19:13PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Ok, the config changes were not done the right way.  They don't handle the
>     situation when someone is compiling up a new kernel with an older system.
> 
>     I am going to back-out the changes to the 'config' program and instead make
>     the option work properly via the 'mandatory' keyword in conf/files.

Anyone not using buildkernel is on his own. If he uses buildkernel, he
already has a new config, so what's the problem. I also don't like
making such options mandatory, because they are *not* mandatory. That
fault has been made in the past by making each and every compat code
depend on COMPAT_43, we shouldn't repeat.

Joerg





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