[CLUE-Tech] Kernel compiling questions

[Mike Staver]

Thanks guys, that helps. I noticed that first option, but the word
"prompt" bothered me because I wasn't sure when the prompting was going
to take place :)  I thought by reading the first option that it meant
that I'd have to insert some boot disk of some kind when the machine
starts up or something.  Silly me!

Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:46:27PM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:11:36PM -0600, Mike Staver wrote:
> > > Ok, so I finally figured out how to patch that new SCSI driver into my
> > > 2.4.19 kernel source, but I am stuck here:
> > >
> > > "note that you need to enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL to be able to select
> > > the DC395
> > > driver; of course you need it in the kernel"
> 
> > First choice: "Code Maturity Level Options" select:
> >
> > "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
> 
> Ah, yes ... uberhackers and READMEs often talk in terms of names like
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (because those are the actual option names found in
> the kernel config file). But the menuconfig and xconfig interfaces use
> more "user-friendly" names, so it can be a little hard to figure out
> which option is what sometimes. I have found it a helpful exercise to
> browse through the generated config file and see how it corresponds to
> the options I selected.
> 
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