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Re: [solved] make menuconfig



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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:24:11AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote:
> Thanks, that's it!
> 
> but why this bass-ackwards structure in menuconfig.  Wouldn't it be simpler
> to list the drivers and then suggest other functions that need to be enabled
> in order for the driver to work??  Yes, I'm a newbie and still learning, but
> I spent a considerable amount of time trying to find this stupid thing.

Because it corresponds to the source code better, I would imagine.
Also, the makefiles are already gargantuan for the kernel, there's
zero motivation to make it worse.  Kernel configuration, no matter how
easy people try to make it, is *not* something you should be doing
without knowing what you're doing and reading the documentation as you
go.  You can *seriously* hose a system that way.

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