Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:25:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:25:19 -0500 Received: from dsl254-112-233.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.112.233]:28074 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:25:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:11:19 -0500 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Rob Landley Cc: David Garfield , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy Message-ID: <20011223141119.A21710@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Rob Landley , David Garfield , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011220143247.A19377@thyrsus.com> <20011222081345.ETGO12125.femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> <20011222045805.A24575@thyrsus.com> <20011223174227.NCJM25224.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011223174227.NCJM25224.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>; from landley@trommello.org on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:40:26AM -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rob Landley : > Is the help file even currently accurate with this extra distinction made? Not completely, but that's because in some cases I don't know whether decimal or binary multiples are involved. Where that is the case I have left the ambiguous terminology in place. > And you've already implied you want to change the symbol set for > CONFIG_NINO_4MB and such. How deeply into the kernel will these changes go? I don't know yet. I can only clean up the bits for which I am maintainer. -- Eric S. Raymond The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, 1787 - 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/