From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263180AbTHVSAh (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:00:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263158AbTHVSAh (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:00:37 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:51464 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263190AbTHVSAg (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:00:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:00:30 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: John Bradford Cc: hch@lst.de, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix the -test3 input config damages Message-ID: <20030822180030.GI1040@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: John Bradford , hch@lst.de, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200308221757.h7MHv3uS000585@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308221757.h7MHv3uS000585@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:57:03PM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > > Is it worth it? I see EMBEDDED as more of a "STANDARD" thing - for people > > who don't care or know, that's a slight safety-net saying "this selects > > the things you take for grated". > > I'm pretty sure that's not what it was originally intended to be, but > rather what it seems to have become. On the other hand, your > described usage is probably more useful to the typical user. > > Why not have DEVELOPER to implement the original intentions of > EMBEDDED? I think I like CONFIG_NONSTD_ABI better.