From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: untangle EXPERT and EMBEDDED
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:04:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120118210441.GA4728@p183.telecom.by> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120118122830.037f1e29.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:28:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> And ditto EXPERT. Is there really any benefit in hiding config options
> from developers so they won't burn their fingers? Or is there some
> other reason for EXPERT?
Absolutely.
If say CONFIG_TMPFS is disabled, Debian simply won't boot past
init scripts. Or CONFIG_UNIX (I'm almost sure, reasonably
modern distro is unusable anyway).
> Anyway, we already have a way to prevent fingers from getting burnt:
> defconfig. Start out with that and carefully modify it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-18 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 15:16 [PATCH] kconfig: untangle EXPERT and EMBEDDED Andrew Jones
2012-01-11 21:57 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-12 9:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-12 10:18 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-12 21:06 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-13 8:51 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-13 10:53 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-13 12:22 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-13 21:27 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-16 9:20 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-16 23:28 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-17 14:27 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-17 20:46 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-18 8:14 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 9:19 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-16 15:31 ` Jerome Marchand
2012-01-16 23:37 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-17 14:46 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-17 20:54 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-18 8:51 ` Jerome Marchand
2012-01-18 8:56 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 9:31 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-18 9:54 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 9:38 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-12 20:59 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-16 15:40 ` Jerome Marchand
2012-01-16 15:50 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-16 17:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-01-17 8:28 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 11:08 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 20:28 ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-18 20:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-18 21:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2012-01-18 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-18 21:48 ` Paul Bolle
2012-01-18 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-18 22:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-18 22:06 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-18 22:13 ` Dave Jones
2012-01-19 8:09 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-23 13:46 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-24 0:43 ` David Rientjes
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