Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753909AbXJAIE3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:04:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751295AbXJAIER (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:04:17 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:41530 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750966AbXJAIEP (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:04:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:05:40 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Oleg Verych Cc: "Elyse M. Grasso" , Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andreas Herrmann , Eric Van Hensbergen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL) Message-ID: <20071001080540.GC23965@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070918080537.GA14882@devil> <200709281005.34001.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200709281112.52844.emgrasso@data-raptors.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 20 Hi Oleg. > > Today's kconfig was proposed and accepted in a very unpleasant > circumstances, has very poor design, development and no working > alternative (for 5+ years now). I have read all your mails about this subject - but I still miss what is so bad about current design. Could you try to stay down on the earth and be very specific about what you see as so bad in current design. "With stay down on earth" I try to say that what I have read before I could not dechiper so be specific, please. Sam - 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/