Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error

From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	John Stoffel <stoffel@lucent.com>,
	DevilKin-LKML <devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 23:11:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13590000.1054102279@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030528033459.GR8978@holomorphy.com>

> At some point in the past, Dave Jones' attribution was stripped from:
>>> Given that 99% of users will be choosing option 1, it might be a
>>> good thing to have the remaining options only shown if a
>>> CONFIG_X86_SUBARCHS=y and have things default to option 1 if =n.
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:59:23PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> Please, not more layered config options! That just makes people who
>> want to enable the x440 or other alternative platform require fair
>> amounts of psychic power (maybe this can be fixed with a big fat help
>> message, but so can the current method).
>> If you're going hide the other options away so much, then the default
>> should be the generic arch, IMHO.
> 
> Or better yet, remove all the #ifdefs, finish generalizing the APIC
> code, and have nothing to configure at all. For 2.7 ...

For the "commerical" options like Summit and bigsmp, I think this is an
option for 2.5 even, given some more testing. And then the wierdo arches
can be better hidden ;-)

M.