Re: pre9 and xconfig warnings

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:51:42 -0600


Hi Meelis,

> WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_PMAC was not declared!

Sigh, I know.

I can't turn it off until I know that every line in there is just noise.
Some lines were real bugs ("m was not declared!").

> This is on an x86. For 2.2.0 this should be turbed off IMHO.

This bug doesn't even begin to come close to "paper bag" importance.

There's a saying: "don't shake the jello". (Everyone who has read the
actual xconfig changes in the pre-9 patch, feel free to laugh at the irony
of that.) But I do mean it; I never send anything to Alan or Linus until
it's been through my testing pipeline. That's why, even though I am
fixing the old bugs slowly, no *new* bugs are appearing in xconfig.

Also at this time, I am not bothering Linus unless xconfig corrupts
user files or opens security holes. He has plenty to do right now.
I have plenty of time to submit patches to him for 2.2.1.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"

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