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Subject: Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe
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On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:28, Dennis Grant wrote:
> Agreed - so then the association between "board" and "chipset" must be capable
> of being multi-valued, and when there is a mult-valued match there must be some
> means of further interrogating the user (or user agent) for more information.

Much simpler to just include "modular everything" and let user space
sort it out. Guess why every vendor takes this path

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