> 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?

YAMAMOTO Takashi