From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:59:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021103215920.GB733@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DC56270.8040305@pobox.com>
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:52:48PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> This is potentially becoming a FAQ... I ran into this too, as did
> several people in the office. People who compile custom kernels seem to
> run into this when they first jump into 2.5.x. AT Keyboard support is
> definitely buried :/
Documentation isn't enough. It _has_ to be made simpler.
Its obvious that this is the #1 stumbling block to a 2.5 virgin right now.
I fell over it myself when I merged it, as did Linus I believe.
It's just not obvious enough.
Having it documented obviously isn't enough too. I covered this in
the document[*] I wrote last week, which got ~3000 direct hits, ~7000
or so on Linux-today, and god knows how many elsewhere.
(Either that, or my description of the problem sucked).
Dave
[*] http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-03 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-03 17:09 Petition against kernel configuration options madness Jos Hulzink
2002-11-03 16:05 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-11-03 18:20 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-11-03 17:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-03 19:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-11-03 19:37 ` Petr Baudis
2002-11-03 20:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-11-03 22:20 ` Petr Baudis
2002-11-03 22:32 ` [PATCH] Sane defaults for the input layer configuration Petr Baudis
2002-11-03 22:25 ` Petition against kernel configuration options madness Jos Hulzink
2002-11-04 1:40 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-04 2:43 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-04 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-03 20:38 ` Arador
2002-11-03 20:40 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-11-03 21:39 ` Jos Hulzink
2002-11-03 22:04 ` Nick LeRoy
2002-11-03 21:58 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-11-03 21:59 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-11-03 22:18 ` Brad Hards
2002-11-04 0:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-04 13:05 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-11-03 20:38 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-11-03 20:43 ` Arador
2002-11-03 21:11 ` Flavio Stanchina
2002-11-03 21:22 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-11-03 21:48 ` Flavio Stanchina
2002-11-03 22:00 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2002-11-04 0:18 ` Werner Almesberger
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2002-11-03 20:19 Hell.Surfers
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