Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271885AbTGYBMm (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:12:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271886AbTGYBMm (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:12:42 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:61131 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271885AbTGYBMj (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:12:39 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why the current kernel config menu layout is a mess In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.5.19-20030610 ("Darts") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20-xfs (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 03:27:45 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1811 Lines: 57 In article you wrote: > the suboption "Support for paging of anonymous memory". > might this not go under "Processor type and features", > where there are other memory-related options? well, i think it is architecture independend > "Power management options" > in addition, though, i'm not sure "CPU frequency scaling" > belongs here. it might just as well fit under "Processor type > and features", although that may be nit-picking. Power Management and System Configuration could be a better heading > "Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EIAS, MCA, ISA) > > if this is for busses, why aren't the other busses here as > well? shouldn't USB be here as well? I think this is concernd with mainboard's main bus only (i2c is an aux mainboard bus and usb, firewire are device busses) > "Character devices" (jumping ahead just a bit) > "Block devices" > "Multiple devices (RAID and LVM)" Well, if we go along the line of using unix naming, then MD can be moved ot block devices, not to filesystems. > "Fusion MPT" > > hard to believe this deserves its own top-level entry, > but i could be wrong. yes, very strange. > "IEEE 1394" > it's a bus, right? move it there. i would suggest to have the section separated into system internal stuff (cpu, mainboard bus, management bus, memory, apci, ..) and external interfaces (usb, firewire, legacy/serial/, legacy/parallel, legacy/ps2, ...) Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ - 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/