From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:20:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:19:53 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:48891 "HELO executor.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:19:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3B053D8A.FF16ECEC@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:19:38 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com Organization: Red Hat, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Owens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up In-Reply-To: <20010518105353.A13684@thyrsus.com> <1694.990198581@ocs3.ocs-net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Keith Owens wrote: > > (c) Decide not to support this case and document the fact in the > > rulesfile. If you're going put gunge on the VME bus that replaces > > the SBC's on-board facilities, you can hand-hack your own configs. > > In general this is the best option, if you create a non-standard > configuration for machine foo then it is your problem, not everybody > else's. If you use a standard configuration, you can use a precompiled kernel as well. Sorry I don't buy this. The point of the kernel configuration is to also allow non-standard configurations. Think about it: the standard pc (PC99 or whatever it is called this year) doesn't have a PS/2 port, only USB. So we can remove even the question from the config system, no? Greetings, Arjan van de Ven