Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264539AbTE1F6a (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 01:58:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264542AbTE1F6a (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 01:58:30 -0400 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:15572 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264539AbTE1F63 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 01:58:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 23:11:20 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: William Lee Irwin III cc: Dave Jones , Roman Zippel , John Stoffel , DevilKin-LKML , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error Message-ID: <13590000.1054102279@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <20030528033459.GR8978@holomorphy.com> 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]> <20030528033459.GR8978@holomorphy.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1260 Lines: 27 > 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 ... For the "commerical" options like Summit and bigsmp, I think this is an option for 2.5 even, given some more testing. And then the wierdo arches can be better hidden ;-) M. - 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/