From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 04:03:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF110CB.6074C036@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010503034755.A27693@thyrsus.com>
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> OK, so you want CML2's "make oldconfig" to do something more graceful than
> simply say "Foo! You violated this constraint! Go fix it!"
[...]
> Have I got the point across yet? There are *no* good solutions
> to this problem. There aren't even any clean ways to separate
> easy cases from hard ones.
No good solutions? Then how come I use "make oldconfig" every day...
Are we to assume from your long missive that you are turning the
possible into the impossible? :)
IMHO "make oldconfig" must stay.
--
Jeff Garzik | Game called on account of naked chick
Building 1024 |
MandrakeSoft |
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-03 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-03 7:47 Why recovering from broken configs is too hard Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 8:03 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-05-03 8:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 8:29 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03 8:42 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2001-05-03 8:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 8:45 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-03 9:14 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03 9:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 9:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 10:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03 15:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 18:36 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03 14:54 ` David Mansfield
2001-05-03 15:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 18:13 ` John Stoffel
2001-05-03 9:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 10:15 ` [kbuild-devel] " Keith Owens
2001-05-03 16:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 17:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 18:30 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-05-03 18:41 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-03 19:03 ` Device driver from kernel2.2.x to kernel2.4 jalaja devi
2001-05-04 1:39 ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-03 22:58 ` [kbuild-devel] Why recovering from broken configs is too hard Keith Owens
2001-05-03 19:20 ` Michal Jaegermann
2001-05-03 23:58 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-03 22:55 ` David Lang
2001-05-04 7:47 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
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