Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:38:56 +0100 (CET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, greg@kroah.com,
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       sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:41:49 -0800 (PST)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> >  Here are some odd-the-cuff
> > suggestions:
> > 
> > 1) Make feature-removal-schedule a directory with files in it.
> >    Everyone touches that file, creating merge issues.
> > 
> > 2) Let's move away from some/dir/{Kconfig,Makefile} schemes and
> >    instead have each "thing" have it's own Kconfig.foo or
> >    Makefile.foo that gets automatically sucked into the main
> >    directory Makefile or Kconfig using file globs or similar.
> > 
> >    Even better, encode the building of things into the *.[ch]
> >    files themselves, and have the Kconfig/Makefile machinery
> >    automatically extract this information when you build.
> 
> 3) teach people that you don't always have to add new includes right
>    at the end of the list
> 
> 4) teach people that you don't have to add Makefile rules right at the
>    end of the list

If the list is already sorted, I insert it at the right position.
If not, well...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds
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