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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
	"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-x86 model config cleanup
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 02:11:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020530021159.B26821@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CF53C34.2080300@mandrakesoft.com> <200205292205.g4TM5e8348005@saturn.cs.uml.edu>

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
 > 
 > This is still a mess. It's better to have one boolean
 > per processor, and order the processors by the year
 > in which they were most commonly sold.

The information hiding of irrelevant options was one of the
motivations behind that original patch. If I know I have
an AMD Athlon, showing me all the Intel CPUs just gets in the way.
A zillion options in a scrolly list is no better than what
we currently have imo.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-30  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-29 14:35 [PATCH] intel-x86 model config cleanup J.A. Magallon
2002-05-29 20:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-29 20:38   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-29 22:05     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-05-30  0:11       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-05-30  2:43         ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-05-30  4:34           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-30 11:09           ` Dave Jones
2002-05-29 22:44     ` J.A. Magallon
2002-05-29 22:54       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-29 23:06         ` J.A. Magallon
2002-05-29 23:12           ` Jeff Garzik

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