Am 11/08/11 14:12, schrieb Niclas Zeising: > On 11/08/11 12:36, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Sorry for the boring question, but is the default configuration file >> /sys/amd64/conf/DEFAULTS anywhere include in a regular configuration >> file for the kernel while building the kernel? >> >> I looked for include statements in GENERIC, but didn't find one. I use >> custom kernel config files and adapt most changes from the NOTES files >> in the sources tree. >> >> With the today's update of README in /sys/amd64/conf I realised some >> important changes, so this triggered my question. >> >> I simply made an additional "include" in the custom config file, but if >> this isn't necessary, I'll delete it again. And I'm interested in how >> the kernel is built from. It is a very convenient way to type simply >> "make kerne" in /usr/src/, but it vanishes to much of the complexity and >> understanding how the system builds and could cause problems. >> >> Thanks for your patience and tahnks in advance, >> >> Regards, >> Oliver > > From my understanding of things, the DEFAULTS kernel configuration file > is automatically included into the build by config(8). There is no need > to include it into the generic using the "include" statement. It was > first added 6 years ago, on October 27 2005. > Regards! Thank you very much.Received on Tue Nov 08 2011 - 12:27:10 UTC
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