Re: 2.5 vi .config ; make oldconfig not working

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:15:33 +0100


On Tue, Nov 05 2002, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:21:10PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > '=n' is wrong, that should be "# CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set" still...
> >
> > Why is that wrong? It worked before.
>
> I've run into kernels where '=n' didn't work. The old-skool

Never ever had a problem with it, and I've compiled pretty much every
single kernel in the last handful of kernel cycles.

> canonical answer was "# CONFIG_FOO is not set", and that worked reliably
> in <2.5

Less handy, though.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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