Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus

Randy Dunlap
2007-07-19T15:26:59Z

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:25:30 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
>
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >> I would consider it more ugly to special case this and that in the
> > >> kconfig code when plain dependencies already offer exactly the same
> > >> functionality...
> > >
> > > well, this is the *third* time i've proposed adding this kind of
> > > feature so, at this point, i've really given up caring about it. if
> > > someone wants to do this, have at it. i have better things to do than
> > > to keep suggesting it and getting nowhere with it.
> >
> > For better or worse, it can often be observed that feature requests
> > don't set anything in motion until a first patch is sent. Even a
> > patch that is far from perfect can get things going really quickly.
> > (If the requested feature makes sense to other people.)
>
> i *did* submit a preliminary patch once upon a time, and it
> (predictably) went nowhere. so, if someone else wants to pick this up
> and do something with it, you have my blessing. life's too short to
> keep wasting time on this.

I think that Stefan means a patch to the kconfig source code,
not the the Kconfig files. Good luck. I'd still like to see it.

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~Randy
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