Re: tlug: Kernel Hacking

[Yong-Ming Hua <yhua@example.com>]

Dear Stephen,

     Thanks so much. Yup, again I have to say it was my
make mrproper that always reset every setting. I should have
reset my brain as well. l;adkhfadh;lskdhsdfhslfdskfsdhfkshfka
Thanks. And shame on me.

Yong-Ming

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:00:31 +0900 (JST) 
        Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>>> "Yong-Ming" == Yong-Ming Hua <yhua@example.com> writes:
>
>    Yong-Ming>      I have got a weird thing right here. For some
>    Yong-Ming> reasons, everytime I try to make new configurations,
>    Yong-Ming> such as a new scsi dev, other settings keep going back
>    Yong-Ming> to defaults(are there such stuff
>
>>From the subject I assume you're talking about building a new kernel?
>What exactly are you doing to "make new configurations"?
>
>The kernel configuration has original defaults distributed with the
>configuration script (in arch/$ARCH/defconfig and
>arch/$ARCH/config.in).  Once you have configured the kernel, your
>values are kept in a "hidden" file, .config.  These defaults should be
>used the next time (and overide the distribution defaults).  Unless
>you do something special, they will be used and replaced every time
>you reconfigure the kernel.
>
>As far as I know, the only operations that normally touch .config
>are `make *config' (obviously) and `make mrproper' (which rm's it).  In 
>particular `make clean', `make dep', and `make <objects>' do not.
>
>I'm not sure what happens if you try to invoke `scripts/Configure' (or 
>any of the other configuration utilities) directly; you should always
>do so via `make *config' as far as I know.
>
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