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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
	Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com>,
	Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>,
	OpenSUSE Kernel Team <opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:20:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyD_=aMoYKBocWFXXZ7RypWhZemOLyqC4p7oqfDRinqDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50009051.3060806@schaufler-ca.com>

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
>
> Oh dear. I would expect Fedora to say that they require SELinux,
> thereby making it unusable by anyone doing LSM development.

Oh, *absolutely*.

These options would *not* be meant for people doing odd things and
experienting with configs.

If you do that, then you might *start* by saying "I want this distro"
to get the initial guesstimate of the config file you want, but then
edit the .config by hand later (and remove the "I want all the Fedora
requirements" option, of course).

This is explicitly and exclusively for normal users. The whole point
of "expert configurator for special cases" should not be given any
thought at all - those kinds of people should simply answer "No" to
the "Do you want the distro basic kconfig requirements" question.

                Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-13 20:37 [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues Linus Torvalds
2012-07-13 20:54 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-07-13 21:41   ` [opensuse-kernel] " richard -rw- weinberger
2012-07-14 10:37     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-14 12:12       ` Pekka Enberg
2012-07-14 12:43         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-07-14 17:48           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-14 18:51             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-07-14 19:51               ` david
2012-07-19 14:42             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 16:48               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 17:02                 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 17:34                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 17:57                     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 18:09                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 17:06                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-19 17:53                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 18:42                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-15 10:14         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-15 10:17           ` Pekka Enberg
2012-07-15 21:18             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-15 21:48               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-07-15 22:09                 ` david
2012-07-15 22:22                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-07-15 23:06                     ` david
2012-07-16  8:24                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-16 16:43                     ` david
2012-07-16 16:50                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-16 19:26                         ` david
2012-07-16 20:56                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-16 22:21                             ` david
2012-07-18  7:04                               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-18  8:42                                 ` david
2012-07-18  9:13                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-17  8:03                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-19 16:01                               ` Michal Marek
2012-07-16 17:01                     ` Alan Cox
2012-07-16 17:05                       ` david
2012-07-13 21:02 ` Dave Jones
2012-07-13 21:17   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-13 22:26     ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 15:26     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 15:43       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-19 16:12         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 15:45       ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 16:08         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 17:19           ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 17:30             ` Alan Cox
2012-07-19 17:38               ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 21:13               ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-20  2:44                 ` david
2012-07-19 17:33             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 17:41               ` Alan Cox
2012-07-19 17:56               ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 18:13                 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-19 18:36                   ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 21:04                     ` david
2012-07-19 22:35                       ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 22:49                         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-21 20:47                 ` valdis.kletnieks
2012-07-19 18:20             ` Paul Bolle
2012-07-19 18:22               ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19 18:49                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-19 18:55                   ` Paul Bolle
2012-07-19 21:30                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-13 21:29   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-13 21:50   ` Paul Bolle
2012-07-13 21:55     ` Dave Jones
2012-07-13 22:11       ` Tony Luck
2012-07-13 22:20       ` Paul Bolle
2012-07-13 23:07       ` Frank Rowand
2012-07-13 21:06 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-07-13 21:17 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-07-13 21:20   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-07-13 22:13     ` david
2012-07-13 21:59 ` Hans de Bruin
2012-07-13 22:33 ` Jesper Juhl
2012-07-13 22:46   ` david
2012-07-14  9:44   ` Olivier Galibert
2012-07-14  4:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-14 12:35   ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-19  1:48 ` Steven Yong
2012-07-20  9:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-07-20 10:26   ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-07-18  9:55 Tom Gundersen
2012-07-22 20:10 ` David Greaves

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