From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 20:12:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 20:12:00 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:30225 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 20:11:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 02:11:59 +0200 From: Dave Jones To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: Jeff Garzik , "J.A. Magallon" , Lista Linux-Kernel , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-x86 model config cleanup Message-ID: <20020530021159.B26821@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Jeff Garzik , "J.A. Magallon" , Lista Linux-Kernel , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <3CF53C34.2080300@mandrakesoft.com> <200205292205.g4TM5e8348005@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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