On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Mike O'Dell wrote:
>
> any reason why the kernel "config" program shouldn't
> be changed to dramatically reduce the requirement for
> the silling quoting of option values??? if an option
> needs embedded whitespace, but other than that,
> is there any reason other than historical for
> the silliness about nubmers, etc??
Actually, as I understand it config(8) was never meant to allow the LACK
of quotation marks. It's simply we've grown accustomed to not using them,
I suppose, that we don't. I, for one, have every option quoted in my kernel
configuration file. The right thing would be to not allow lack of quotes
at all, I believe, but that would be disastrous now with current config
files, and release scripts.
>
> -mo
>
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