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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
	rientjes@google.com, mingo@elte.hu, david.woodhouse@intel.com,
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	linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: untangle EXPERT and EMBEDDED
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:04:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120118210441.GA4728@p183.telecom.by> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120118122830.037f1e29.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:28:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> And ditto EXPERT.  Is there really any benefit in hiding config options
> from developers so they won't burn their fingers?  Or is there some
> other reason for EXPERT?

Absolutely.

If say CONFIG_TMPFS is disabled, Debian simply won't boot past
init scripts. Or CONFIG_UNIX (I'm almost sure, reasonably
modern distro is unusable anyway).

> Anyway, we already have a way to prevent fingers from getting burnt:
> defconfig.  Start out with that and carefully modify it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-18 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-11 15:16 [PATCH] kconfig: untangle EXPERT and EMBEDDED Andrew Jones
2012-01-11 21:57 ` David Rientjes
2012-01-12  9:18   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-12 10:18     ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-12 21:06       ` David Rientjes
2012-01-13  8:51         ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-13 10:53           ` David Rientjes
2012-01-13 12:22             ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-13 21:27               ` David Rientjes
2012-01-16  9:20                 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-16 23:28                   ` David Rientjes
2012-01-17 14:27                     ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-17 20:46                       ` David Rientjes
2012-01-18  8:14                         ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18  9:19                           ` David Rientjes
2012-01-16 15:31                 ` Jerome Marchand
2012-01-16 23:37                   ` David Rientjes
2012-01-17 14:46                     ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-17 20:54                       ` David Rientjes
2012-01-18  8:51                         ` Jerome Marchand
2012-01-18  8:56                         ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18  9:31                           ` David Rientjes
2012-01-18  9:54                             ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18  9:38                         ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-12 20:59     ` David Rientjes
2012-01-16 15:40 ` Jerome Marchand
2012-01-16 15:50   ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-16 17:34     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-01-17  8:28       ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 11:08 ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 11:08   ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 11:08   ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-18 20:28   ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-18 20:46     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-18 21:04     ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2012-01-18 21:36       ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-18 21:48     ` Paul Bolle
2012-01-18 21:55       ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-18 22:13         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-01-18 22:06       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-01-18 22:13       ` Dave Jones
2012-01-19  8:09     ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-23 13:46     ` Andrew Jones
2012-01-24  0:43       ` David Rientjes

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