From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 05:44:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 05:44:42 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:63500 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 05:44:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 05:44:32 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Alan Cox Cc: Tom Rini , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up Message-ID: <20010508054432.A16487@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Alan Cox , Tom Rini , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010507105950.A771@opus.bloom.county> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:57:23PM +0100 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 Alan Cox : > There are also a lot of config options that are implied by your setup in > an embedded enviromment but which you dont actually want because you didnt > wire them Well, then, you don't specify the guard capability! If your MV147 isn't wired for serial, then leave SERIAL off. The point of the derivation is exactly to let you do that. -- Eric S. Raymond Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim -- when he defends himself -- as a criminal. -- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"