From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbuild-devel <kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: linux kernel conf 0.8
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:32:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA5B99B.5080707@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021010192924.A13618@mars.ravnborg.org
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> [cc: trimmed]
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:18:06AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Personally I don't care about Config dependency checking... they are
>>not modified often enough to affect me, and even if they did, dependency
>>checking based on changes to Config files can get ugly, AFAICS. I just
>>do a "bk -r co -Sq" and am done with it...
>
> I care a lot about Config dependency checking, and you are not within the
> group of people that I care about in this respect.
>
> kernel-hackers has no problem realising that a "make oldconfig" is needed.
>
> But I care about NN that follows 2.6 development, and update his/her
> tree each time a new version is posted at kernel.org.
> This group of people needs dependency checking on Config files -
> as can be seen by the number of reports that boils down to
> "run make oldconfig".
The kernel is written for people with a clue. For people without a
clue, they should use a vendor kernel or ESR's Aunt-Tillie-friendly system.
Dumbing-down the kernel is never the right answer.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-10 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-10-09 12:01 ` linux kernel conf 0.8 Roman Zippel
2002-10-09 13:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-09 13:55 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-09 14:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-09 14:14 ` [kbuild-devel] " Brendan J Simon
2002-10-09 14:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-09 14:24 ` Brendan J Simon
2002-10-09 14:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-09 14:45 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-10-09 15:14 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-09 15:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 15:19 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-09 16:29 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-09 16:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-09 18:39 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-09 18:52 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-10-09 19:28 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-09 19:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-10-09 19:47 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-09 14:55 ` [kbuild-devel] " Roman Zippel
2002-10-09 17:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-10-09 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 17:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-10-09 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-09 19:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-10-09 20:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-09 22:49 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-10 14:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-10 17:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-10-10 17:32 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-10-10 17:51 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-10-09 23:49 ` [kbuild-devel] " Brendan J Simon
2002-10-09 18:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-09 0:40 Roman Zippel
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