From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 12:04:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 12:04:23 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:46344 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 12:04:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:04:16 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Horst von Brand Cc: John Stoffel , cate@dplanet.ch, CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...] Message-ID: <20010503120416.H31960@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Horst von Brand , John Stoffel , cate@dplanet.ch, CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <200105031232.f43CW7aA009990@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105031232.f43CW7aA009990@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>; from vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:32:07AM -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Horst von Brand : > If you support broken configurations in any way, your program is just > wildly guessing what they did mean. The exact (and very probably not in any > way cleanly thought out) behaviour in corner cases then becomes "the way > things work", and we end up in an unmaintainable mess yet again. Yes, this is precisely what I fear. -- Eric S. Raymond Rapists just *love* unarmed women. And the politicians who disarm them.