From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HzKnV-0001X1-AV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:01:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5FN0eG4030808; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:00:40 GMT Received: from comet.tesuji.org ([66.45.116.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5FN0cHC030800 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:00:39 GMT Received: from buzzy (buzzy [66.45.116.51]) by comet.tesuji.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l5FN0RWB013236 for gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:00:37 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:58:25 EDT Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] How works Genkernel's non-interactive 'make oldconfig' CC: To: gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org From: Master Control Program Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-kernel@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: c7779bf2-1971-4f27-b457-bce330182bbc X-Archives-Hash: 0dd8fe1318e0ef8554d5e0a97c81b901 "Ryan Sims" wrote on 06/15/2007 03:39:38 PM: > On 6/15/07, Arne St=E4cker wrote: > > Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 schrieb Greg KH: > > > That's not really safe. You want to use the defaults, which is w= hat I > > > think 'silentoldconfig' does. You really don't want to enable an= option > > > like "Add self-destruct mode" to the kernel if it is newly presen= t :) > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > greg k-h > > Good point. I will then use "echo n | make oldconfig" by default. > > I'm not sure that really removes the danger. What if they split out = a > driver you need into some other config option? If there's a way to > echo a newline to all the questions, that would at least accept the > defaults. > > Pardon me for being reactionary, but does "non-interactive kernel > configuration" give anyone else the cold sweats? > Yep, shot myself in the foot when SATA options appeared in the kernel and there was no boot device. End of line. -- gentoo-kernel@gentoo.org mailing list