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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2013-07-20 23:01:24 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2013-07-20 23:01:24 +0000
commit7e3a2897e7e8d8b398162f464f093388efbaf48f (patch)
tree79d6f0ede1ae516bb9d73e48b6c369a76e63c3ce
parent899d530eb75399ffed52651980b27ea2abe3806c (diff)
Add comments about the kernel make defconfig option
when configuring the kernel. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10306 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml6
-rw-r--r--chapter08/kernel.xml7
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 7a8b03c66..c44c49cb5 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@
<para>2013-07-20</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Add comments about the kernel
+ <command>make defconfig</command> option when configuring
+ the kernel. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3379">#3379</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-3.10.1.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
diff --git a/chapter08/kernel.xml b/chapter08/kernel.xml
index 00309b469..3b91f4849 100644
--- a/chapter08/kernel.xml
+++ b/chapter08/kernel.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,12 @@
information about configuring and building the kernel can be found at
<ulink url="http://www.kroah.com/lkn/"/> </para>
- <note><para>Due to recent changes in <application>udev</application>, be sure to
+ <note><para>A good starting place for setting up the kernel configuration
+ is to run <command>make defconfig</command>. This will set the base
+ configuration to a good state that takes your current system architecture
+ into account.</para>
+
+ <para>Due to recent changes in <application>udev</application>, be sure to
select:</para>
<screen role="nodump">Device Drivers ---&gt;