From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 16:07:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6B47532D-DD6A-4F1B-9A23-6AA67F6959BD@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0704012143120.16977@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Apr 01, 2007, at 15:47:18, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> +config I_KNOW_WHAT_THE_HELL_I_AM_DOING
>
> Let's just hope kconfig does not bust the stack.
> Perhaps we could shorten that: I_KNOW_WTF_I_AM_DOING
Ah, good point, but I think it fits.
> + bool "Prompt for config options which will break your computer"
>
> s/will break (.*)/could break $1 if done wrong/;
Well, we've had problems in the past where people turn on options
under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL or CONFIG_EMBEDDED and it breaks in exactly
the specified fashion and they complain on LKML. The point of this
is to expose kconfig tunables which a "normal" kconfig user would get
wrong 99% of the time and would break in obscure ways. For example,
the "CONFIG_MULTITHREAD_PCI_PROBE" option, if it was re-added for
more tinkering, could go under this option.
> +config EXPERT
> + bool
> + depends on I_KNOW_WHAT_THE_HELL_I_AM_DOING
> + default y
>
> Given that, I hope the number of options dependent on CONFIG_EXPERT
> will outnumber those depending on CONFIG_I_KNOW_WTF_I_AM_DOING.
Ah, see, due to the magic of kconfig language this does not show up
as a separate option (no text for the "bool") identifier. It's just
an alias for I_KNOW_WHAT_THE_HELL_I_AM_DOING to make it easier to use
in other Kconfig files ("depends EXPERT && SOME_OPTION!=n &&
ANOTHER_OPTION") instead of s/EXPERT/I_KNOW_WHAT_THE_HELL_I_AM_DOING/g.
> If you want my answer: not-so-ACK, move the text to CONFIG_EXPERT
> and let's stay sane for the next 366 days until next April 01.
:-D
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-01 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 138+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-01 18:13 [PATCH 0/16] Assorted patches Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:13 ` [PATCH 1/16] vt-sysfs-for-colors.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 6:49 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 7:31 ` [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 9:30 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 11:26 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-02 11:44 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 11:54 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-02 12:47 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 13:20 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-02 13:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 18:50 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:39 ` James Bruce
2007-04-02 6:49 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 7:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 7:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 8:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 3/16] vt-underline-color.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 6:57 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 4/16] vt-printk-color.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 5/16] fix-kthread-niceness.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 06/16] isofs-add-write-bit.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:39 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 18:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:52 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 19:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 19:42 ` [PATCH] Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 19:47 ` [PATCH] Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 20:07 ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
2007-04-01 19:50 ` [PATCH] Add a CONFIG_I_KNOW_WHAT_THE_HELL_I_AM_DOING variable Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 23:03 ` [PATCH] Andi Kleen
2007-04-01 20:22 ` [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 08/16] console-printk-level.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 19:07 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 09/16] zlib-decompression-status.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 17:48 ` Jörn Engel
2007-04-02 18:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 5:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 7:01 ` [PATCH 10/16] show partitions on mount error Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 18:59 ` [PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff Pavel Machek
2007-04-04 0:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:16 ` [PATCH 11/16] samba-eintr-fix.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 19:09 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-01 19:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 19:42 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-02 5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-01 18:16 ` [PATCH 12/16] cifs-use-mutex.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:36 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-01 18:17 ` [PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 6:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 10:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 0:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-04 5:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-17 8:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:17 ` [PATCH 14/16] kconfig-allow-override.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-04-01 19:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-01 18:18 ` [PATCH 15/16] use-regular-eth-suffix.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:42 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-02 1:40 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-04-01 18:18 ` [PATCH 16/16] warn-on-kthread-name-truncation.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 6:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 6:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-02-02 21:26 [PATCH] Sergey Shtylyov
2017-07-09 23:58 [PATCH] armetallica
2017-07-09 23:54 ` [PATCH] Kershner, David A
2017-07-09 23:35 [PATCH] armetallica
2017-07-20 15:06 ` [PATCH] Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-12-24 15:45 [PATCH] Evan Hosseini
2014-01-09 18:27 ` [PATCH] Greg KH
2012-03-04 20:34 [PATCH] Stefan Richter
2012-03-04 20:36 ` [PATCH] Stefan Richter
2011-08-11 21:29 [PATCH] Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-09-19 2:25 [PATCH] Junio C Hamano
2010-09-19 9:54 ` [PATCH] Sam Ravnborg
2010-09-19 18:21 ` [PATCH] Junio C Hamano
2010-09-19 19:31 ` [PATCH] Sam Ravnborg
2010-09-20 12:11 ` [PATCH] Michal Marek
2010-08-14 12:43 [PATCH] Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-07 16:20 [PATCH] Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-15 7:03 [PATCH] Tim Shimmin
2007-12-03 15:54 [PATCH] Andries E. Brouwer
2007-12-03 17:06 ` [PATCH] Alan Cox
2007-02-21 21:23 [PATCH] James Simmons
2006-07-15 18:43 [PATCH] Chris Boot
2006-03-24 23:07 [PATCH] Daniel Walker
2006-03-24 23:19 ` [PATCH] john stultz
2006-03-24 23:22 ` [PATCH] Daniel Walker
2006-03-10 14:47 [PATCH] Kumar Gala
2006-03-10 15:05 ` [PATCH] Kumar Gala
2005-06-15 11:41 [PATCH] Jan Beulich
2004-11-18 20:17 [PATCH] Colin Leroy
2004-08-10 2:49 [PATCH] Roland McGrath
2004-08-05 13:51 [PATCH] Michal Ludvig
2004-08-05 14:11 ` [PATCH] James Morris
2004-08-05 19:49 ` [PATCH] Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-08-06 2:47 ` [PATCH] James Morris
2004-08-06 2:03 ` [PATCH] Michael Halcrow
2004-08-06 4:58 ` [PATCH] Linus Torvalds
2004-08-06 13:03 ` [PATCH] Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-08-06 3:36 ` [PATCH] YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-08-06 4:21 ` [PATCH] David S. Miller
2004-08-06 4:28 ` [PATCH] Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-08-06 4:42 ` [PATCH] James Morris
2004-08-06 12:54 ` [PATCH] Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-08-06 18:26 ` [PATCH] David S. Miller
2004-08-06 18:36 ` [PATCH] Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-08-06 23:24 ` [PATCH] Matt Mackall
2004-08-07 3:01 ` [PATCH] Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-08-07 22:26 ` [PATCH] Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-08 15:38 ` [PATCH] Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-08-09 18:43 ` [PATCH] Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-09 18:49 ` [PATCH] Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-08-10 0:22 ` [PATCH] Theodore Ts'o
2003-08-11 13:40 [PATCH] davej
2003-07-30 16:31 [patch] Adrian Bunk
2002-08-06 23:04 [PATCH] Paul Mackerras
2002-04-15 18:39 [PATCH] Andre Hedrick
2002-04-15 19:09 ` [PATCH] Josh McKinney
2002-04-15 19:16 ` [PATCH] Andre Hedrick
2002-04-15 19:59 ` [PATCH] Andre Hedrick
2002-04-16 3:11 ` [PATCH] Josh McKinney
2002-04-16 4:11 ` [PATCH] Andre Hedrick
2002-04-16 5:53 ` [PATCH] Jens Axboe
2002-04-16 6:51 ` [PATCH] Andre Hedrick
2002-04-16 6:54 ` [PATCH] Jens Axboe
2002-04-16 7:04 ` [PATCH] Andre Hedrick
2001-10-25 17:24 [PATCH] Christoph Hellwig
2000-11-07 23:20 [PATCH] Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-07 23:09 [PATCH] Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-07 23:30 ` [PATCH] Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=6B47532D-DD6A-4F1B-9A23-6AA67F6959BD@mac.com \
--to=mrmacman_g4@mac.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=sam@ravnborg.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).