Nicholas> Oh, I know what make oldconfig is. Use it all the time. This
Nicholas> patch differs in that is defaults to Y for everything it
Nicholas> doesn't know about. If you have no .config and run make
Nicholas> oldconfig, you get the defaults from arch/*/defconfig and
Nicholas> then basically "random values"[1] for everything else. If
Nicholas> you do the same with make phatconfig, the random values are
Nicholas> replaced with Y's. You get _everything_ included, but honor
Nicholas> the default values in arch/*/defconfig.
Thats a _very_ bad idea IMHO. Some of the options may not have made it
into arch/<foo>/defconfig and some of these new options you definately
don't want, some of them may even break things for you badly or maybe
hoas your filesystem (ie. if say we had a new experimental option for
ext2). A lot of people tend to just accept options blindly and setting
everything to yes is a bad idea.
Jes
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