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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:30:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112887825.14584.59.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504070219160.15339@scrub.home>

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 02:30 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> I was hoping for this too, in the meantime can't you simply make it a 
> suboption of DISCONTIGMEM? So an extra option is only visible when it's 
> enabled and most people can ignore it completely by just disabling a 
> single option.

That's reasonable, except that SPARSEMEM doesn't strictly have anything
to do with DISCONTIG.

How about a menu that's hidden under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL?

> > I'm not opposed to creating some better help text for those things, I'm
> > just not sure that we really need it, or that it will help end users get
> > to the right place.  I guess more explanation never hurt anyone.
> 
> Some basic explanation with a link for more information can't hurt.

I'll see what I can come up with.

-- Dave


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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:30:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112887825.14584.59.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504070219160.15339@scrub.home>

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 02:30 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> I was hoping for this too, in the meantime can't you simply make it a 
> suboption of DISCONTIGMEM? So an extra option is only visible when it's 
> enabled and most people can ignore it completely by just disabling a 
> single option.

That's reasonable, except that SPARSEMEM doesn't strictly have anything
to do with DISCONTIG.

How about a menu that's hidden under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL?

> > I'm not opposed to creating some better help text for those things, I'm
> > just not sure that we really need it, or that it will help end users get
> > to the right place.  I guess more explanation never hurt anyone.
> 
> Some basic explanation with a link for more information can't hurt.

I'll see what I can come up with.

-- Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04 17:50 [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options Dave Hansen
2005-04-04 17:50 ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-04 23:22 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-04-04 23:22   ` Mike Kravetz
2005-04-04 23:29   ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-04 23:29     ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-06 20:58 ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-06 20:58   ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-06 21:01   ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-06 21:01     ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-06 23:40     ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-06 23:40       ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-06 23:57       ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-06 23:57         ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-07  0:30         ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-07  0:30           ` Roman Zippel
2005-04-07 15:30           ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2005-04-07 15:30             ` Dave Hansen
2005-04-07 16:36           ` Dave Hansen

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