Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264437AbTE0X0K (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 19:26:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264438AbTE0X0K (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 19:26:10 -0400 Received: from deviant.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.238]:24021 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264437AbTE0X0J (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 19:26:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 00:40:51 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Roman Zippel , John Stoffel , William Lee Irwin III , DevilKin-LKML , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error Message-ID: <20030527234051.GA7174@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "Martin J. Bligh" , Roman Zippel , John Stoffel , William Lee Irwin III , DevilKin-LKML , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200305271048.36495.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> <20030527130515.GH8978@holomorphy.com> <200305271729.49047.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> <20030527153619.GJ8978@holomorphy.com> <16083.35048.737099.575241@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030527184016.GA5847@suse.de> <4060000.1054072761@[10.10.2.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4060000.1054072761@[10.10.2.4]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1338 Lines: 30 On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:59:23PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > Given that 99% of users will be choosing option 1, it might be a > > good thing to have the remaining options only shown if a > > CONFIG_X86_SUBARCHS=y and have things default to option 1 if =n. > > Please, not more layered config options! That just makes people who > want to enable the x440 or other alternative platform require fair > amounts of psychic power (maybe this can be fixed with a big fat help > message, but so can the current method). With all due respect, 'screw x440 et al'. The fact remains that a majority of users won't even know what an x440 _is_, let alone need to configure for one. If someone has actually ended up with one of those, I'd like to think they at least have enough clue to know what it is they've just spent their megabucks on. > If you're going hide the other options away so much, then the default > should be the generic arch, IMHO. That's precisely what I was saying. I think we're in agreement, in a roundabout 'same but different' sort of way. I think. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/