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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > o  Aunt Tilley.
> >    Vendors already ship an array of kernels which should make it
> >    unnecessary for her to have to build a kernel.
> >
> 
> There is a clear advantage to kernel developers in making things as
> easy as possible for Aunt Tilley to use our latest output.
> 
> If the difficulty of installing the latest kernel prevents her from
> doing that, she loses.  And so do we, because we don't get to know
> if we've fixed her problem.
> 
> If Eric can get the entire download-config-build-install process
> down to a single mouse click, he'll have done us all a great service.

OTOH if dumbing down the kernel config costs kernel developers
productivity and increases the noise-to-signal ratio on lkml, it's a
disservice...

	Jeff



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