From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751434AbaGFMfK (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2014 08:35:10 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:47685 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822AbaGFMfI (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2014 08:35:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 14:35:06 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Jiri Slaby , One Thousand Gnomes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, andi@firstfloor.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jirislaby@gmail.com, Vojtech Pavlik , Michael Matz , Udo Seidel Subject: Re: [PATCH -repost 05/21] kgr: update Kconfig documentation Message-ID: <20140706123506.GA18204@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <1403694435-3180-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <1403694435-3180-5-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <20140625134212.4fb38e14@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <53ABD8FB.9000700@suse.cz> <20140627191845.GA1408@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> <53B6708E.5030106@suse.cz> <20140704103505.GB19252@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat 2014-07-05 21:47:45, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Hi, why do you believe so? But it is not so important, see below. > > > > Because it is quite hard to prepare the patch, and there's not really > > enough documentation..? And given choice between "spend half an hour > > preparing patch" and "just reboot", people compiling their own kernels > > know what to do... > > I fail to see how "having the skills to compile my own kernel" and "being > responsible for a datacenter that can't afford immediate reboot of all > nodes" are connected in any way. Parse error, or too much irony. Anyway, I'd suggest the Kconfig test be something like "say N unless you know how to prepare patch for running kernel, and plan to do that". And, since you seem to be targeting sysadmins with this, it would be cool to have sysadmin-targeted documentation explaining what patches are safe to apply with kgraft and what are not. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html