From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:19:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806232019.11546.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080623174537.GB4756@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>
On Monday 23 June 2008 19:45, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Plus the fact that you often get into situations where more options
> mean complex and fragile stuff. Read the Kconfig files under
> drivers/media/ and check in git all commits to them since 2.6.25 alone,
> and you'll understand why "add an option for every bit" can result in
> very high ongoing maintainance work required.
>
> Not everything that is technically possible is also maintainable, and
> maintainability is a very important point in a project with several
> million lines changing each year.
Well, I am not (and was not) disputing this. I agree with it.
CONFIGs should not be multiplying like rabbits.
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-23 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 17:42 [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list David Woodhouse
2008-04-30 17:44 ` [PATCH 1/1] " David Woodhouse
2008-05-01 9:55 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-05-01 10:05 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-01 11:12 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-30 18:22 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Andi Kleen
2008-04-30 19:11 ` David Woodhouse
2008-06-23 17:22 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-06-23 18:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-06-23 19:12 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-06-23 19:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
[not found] ` <48190B5F.9010505@am.sony.com>
[not found] ` <20080501095822.GL20451@one.firstfloor.org>
2008-05-01 10:02 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-01 10:41 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-02 15:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-02 20:01 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-05-02 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-02 20:33 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-05-02 20:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-03 22:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-05 1:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-23 17:28 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-06-23 17:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-23 18:19 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2008-06-23 19:05 ` Tim Bird
2008-06-25 9:50 ` James Chapman
2008-06-25 15:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-30 18:26 ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-30 18:43 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-30 18:45 ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-30 23:34 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-01 7:04 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-02 11:58 ` Kristoffer Ericson
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