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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: observations on 2.5 config screens
Date: 08 Jan 2003 10:53:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1042041195.694.2734.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030108093021.21759B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 09:32, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Someone else suggested putting all the low level options like preempt,
> smp, and the stuff in kernel-hacking into a single menu, with a better
> name.

I do not think I like this.  SMP, kernel preemption, and high memory
support are the three most fundamental choices one makes during
configuration.

They should be out in the open, in the beginning, in a well-labeled
category.  They only issue I see is "processor options" should be
renamed "core options" or whatever.  But that is trivial.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-01 19:55 observations on 2.5 config screens Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-01 20:07 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-01 20:15   ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-01 20:26   ` John Bradford
2003-01-02  1:55   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-02  2:32     ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-02  4:10       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-02  2:54     ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-07 23:07 ` [2.5 patch] MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD must depend on MODULE_UNLOAD Adrian Bunk
2003-01-08 12:05   ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-07 23:30 ` observations on 2.5 config screens Adrian Bunk
2003-01-07 23:42   ` Robert Love
2003-01-08  0:14     ` Russell King
2003-01-08 14:32     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-08 15:53       ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-01-08 18:36         ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-08 19:50           ` Dave Jones
2003-01-08 22:49             ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-09 12:50               ` Dave Jones
2003-01-09 16:12                 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-09 13:38             ` Ruslan U. Zakirov
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301011435300.27623-100000@dell.qualified-at.bofh.it>
2003-01-02 23:50 ` Bill Davidsen

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