Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270806AbTHAP2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:28:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270807AbTHAP2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:28:09 -0400 Received: from modemcable166.48-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.200.48.166]:35770 "EHLO xanadu.home") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270806AbTHAP2F (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:28:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:27:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicolas Pitre X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home To: John Bradford cc: rob@landley.net, lkml , Subject: Re: Messing with Kconfig. In-Reply-To: <200308010901.h7191Wsd000946@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 22 On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, John Bradford wrote: > > So I'm looking at menuconfig and contemplating rearranging the heck out of it > > Please don't. This comes up from time to time on the mailing list, > and massive re-arrangements are usually a Bad Thing. Of course "massive" re-arrangements all at once have always been rejected, and we've seen obvious examples of that in the kernel build/config system area already. One should have learned, though, that small incremental changes can achieve similar results and are much more acceptable to the rest of the community. Nicolas - 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/