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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Ladislav Hagara <hgr AT vabo.cz>:
> The question "make oldconfig?  [n]" is quite strange, there should be some
> explanation before this question.
> I am always confused when I answer it.
> It should be probably "make oldconfig ? [y]", because if I only press Enter
> it
> start to process oldconfig, linux spell probably needs some improvements.

"make oldconfig" should /never/ default to 'y', as that breaks some upgrades
(the last two updates to the 2.6 were broken this way, at least on some 
boxes),
whereas running 'make menuconfig' will at least generate a sane config file,
even if all you do is save and exit at the end.

-sandalle

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