Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964841AbWHYKh4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:37:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964810AbWHYKh4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:37:56 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:43275 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932455AbWHYKhz (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:37:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:37:54 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , David Woodhouse , David Howells , Jens Axboe , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer Message-ID: <20060825103754.GW19810@stusta.de> References: <32640.1156424442@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060824152937.GK19810@stusta.de> <1156434274.3012.128.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20060824155814.GL19810@stusta.de> <1156435216.3012.130.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20060824160926.GM19810@stusta.de> <20060824164752.GC5205@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <20060824170709.GO19810@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1258 Lines: 36 On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:07:37AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >There's e.g. no reason to ask all users whether they want to compile all > >I/O schedulers into their kernel. > > > The users that do not know how to handle it should not be compiling a > kernel. If in doubt, they should read the help texts and follow the "If > unsure" clause listed there. If your distribution ships 2.6.x and your hardware is not supported before 2.6.x+1 you need your own kernel. The expectation "only kernel hackers don't use distribution kernels" is wrong in too many cases. "System administrator" is a target audience of the kernel configuration, and we should make it as easy as possible for such people to compile their own kernel. > Jan Engelhardt cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/