Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764395AbXJFQEE (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:04:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760302AbXJFQDy (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:03:54 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:38283 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760238AbXJFQDx (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:03:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:03:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Oleg Verych cc: Roman Zippel , "Elyse M. Grasso" , Nick Piggin , Eric Van Hensbergen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andreas Herrmann Subject: Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL) In-Reply-To: <20071006152614.GC22435@flower.upol.cz> Message-ID: References: <20070918080537.GA14882@devil> <200709281005.34001.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200709281112.52844.emgrasso@data-raptors.com> <20071006152614.GC22435@flower.upol.cz> 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: 993 Lines: 25 On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > > Thanks. I will be specific, after i will finish, what i already have, > to make air a bit less hot. Of course everything will be back > compatible, so nothing to worry about (the rewrite). Qutie frankly, this kind of "I'll tell you more when I'm done" is not generally a very working approach. If it's all backwards-compatible with the current Kconfig format, I guess it's not too bad, but historically speaking, the people who went off on their own and redesigned something from scratch have not been successful (and the CML2 thing is a good example of that). Incremental improvements actually tend to do better than "redesign". That's largely true outside of computer science too.. Linus - 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/