YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>>Agree completely.  Basically, people now have to manually edit their  
>>custom config files in order to not have a regression.  That's bad,  
>>IMO.
> 
> 
> afaik it's normal.
> i didn't expect a single kernel config file can be
> used with different versions of kernel because it
> actually couldn't for me sometimes.
> i usually check and merge changes in GENERIC to my kernel config.
> am i only one?

Yes.  If an options will be used in the vast majority of cases, it
shouldn't have to specified.

On the VAX there is NO_EMULATE_INSNS in case you want a smaller kernel
but since all the variants don't implement the same superset of opcodes
you usually want.

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