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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:47:52 +0400
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:00:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:58 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > There's no reason for getting linux-kernel swamped with
> > > "my kernel doesn't boot" messages by people who accidentally disabled
> > > this option.
> >
> > By that logic, you should make it necessary to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED
> > before you can set CONFIG_EXT3 != Y or CONFIG_IDE != Y too.
>
> That's the difference between Aunt Tillie and a system administrator:
> A system administrator knows which filesystems he wants to use.
>
> > However you dress it up, it's pandering to someone who either lacks the
> > wit, or just can't be bothered, to _look_ at what they're doing when
> > they configure their kernel. And it's a bad thing.
>
> We already have too many user visible options

Examples please.

> and too many ways for people to create non-working kernels.
>
> There's no need for additional traps.

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