Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-07T01:06:39Z

Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>:
> P.S. Can we seperate "add new subsystem y prime" and "remove old subsystem
> y". LIke the new and old SCSI error handling, which have been in the tree in
> parallel for some time? Did I hear Eric ever suggest removing the old
> configurator for 2.4? Anybody?

The whole point of putting the new configurator in would be to be able
to drop the old one out.

But that would be strictly Marcelo's call. It would be up to him to decide
whether the tradeoff were worth it.
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Eric S. Raymond

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