From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: szepe@pinerecords.com (Tomas Szepe)
Cc: rpjday@mindspring.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: observations on 2.5 config screens
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:26:18 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301012026.h01KQJq9002327@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030101200717.GA17053@louise.pinerecords.com> from "Tomas Szepe" at Jan 01, 2003 09:07:17 PM
> > Multimedia devices
> >
> > How come "Sound" is not here? And (as we've already
> > established), Radio Adapters is not a sub-entry of Video for
> > Linux. :-) (And is there a reason why Amateur Radio Support
> > and Radio Adapters are so far apart in the config menus?
>
> Yeah, this one is a puzzle. <g>
Amateur Radio Support contains options to do with things like ham
radio modem support.
Radio Adaptors contains options to do with radio tuner cards.
Radio adaptors was originally put together with Video for Linux,
because when there were only a few radio adaptors supported, it seemed
logical to group them with video capture cards, which often have
television tuners on them.
Most of the illogical grouping of configuration options has come about
because of the way the kernel has evolved.
For example, before IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives because popular, CD-ROM
drives were a completely separate configuration category. Now that
IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives are much more popular than proprietary
interface CD-ROM drives, the configuration options for them are
grouped with the IDE and SCSI options.
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-01 20:18 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 [this message]
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
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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