Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264489AbTE1DWA (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 23:22:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264491AbTE1DWA (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 23:22:00 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:36332 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264489AbTE1DV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 23:21:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 20:34:59 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Dave Jones , Roman Zippel , John Stoffel , DevilKin-LKML , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error Message-ID: <20030528033459.GR8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , "Martin J. Bligh" , Dave Jones , Roman Zippel , John Stoffel , 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]> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1072 Lines: 23 At some point in the past, Dave Jones' attribution was stripped from: >> 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. On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:59:23PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > 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). > If you're going hide the other options away so much, then the default > should be the generic arch, IMHO. Or better yet, remove all the #ifdefs, finish generalizing the APIC code, and have nothing to configure at all. For 2.7 ... -- wli - 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/