From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: untangle EXPERT and EMBEDDED Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:04:41 +0300 Message-ID: <20120118210441.GA4728@p183.telecom.by> References: <1326295008-29795-1-git-send-email-drjones@redhat.com> <20120118122830.037f1e29.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:39790 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932140Ab2ARVEv (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:04:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120118122830.037f1e29.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrew Jones , rientjes@google.com, mingo@elte.hu, david.woodhouse@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net, axboe@kernel.dk, arnd@arndb.de, holt@sgi.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, hskinnemoen@gmail.com, egtvedt@samfundet.no, msalter@redhat.com, a-jacquiot@ti.com, starvik@axis.com, jesper nilsson , dhowells@redhat.com, takata@linux-m32r.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, yasutake koichi , jonas@southpole.se, kyle@mcmartin.ca, deller@gmx.de, jejb@parisc-linux.org, chris@zankel.net, greg@kroah.com, davej@redhat.com, airlied@linux.ie, jkosina@suse.cz, mchehab@infradead.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, linville@tuxdriver.com 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.