From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] early_printk: consolidate random copies of identical code
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:56:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130307165642.00153a01.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP=VYLpeqVOC2ZpCdnPDuLrRjwdpbHn3XQoSwAUaYFRdwQPfaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 19:49:35 -0500 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
> > otoh, offering useless stuff to non-kernel-developers has downsides
> > with no balancing benefit, and we really should optimise things for
> > our users because there are so many more of them than there are of us.
>
> Glad to hear that, and I agree totally. I hope the above three lines
> will persuade people to merge practical/sane dependency lines that
> have the end users in mind, instead of focusing on ease of local testing.
It is possible to just ignore the Kconfig system and type "make
drivers/foo/bar.o". Sometimes this actually works.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-08 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-07 19:15 [PATCH v2] early_printk: consolidate random copies of identical code Paul Gortmaker
2013-03-07 19:25 ` Andrew Morton
2013-03-07 19:50 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-03-07 20:05 ` Joe Perches
2013-03-07 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2013-03-07 21:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-03-07 22:47 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-08 0:49 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-03-08 0:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-03-08 1:15 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-03-08 1:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-03-08 15:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-03-07 20:20 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-03-07 21:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-03-07 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2013-03-07 22:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-03-08 16:11 ` [PATCH v3] " Paul Gortmaker
2013-03-08 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2013-03-23 21:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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