Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757143AbYC1PD0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:03:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756544AbYC1PDQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:03:16 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:41478 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756851AbYC1PDO (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:03:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:03:12 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Ingo Molnar cc: David Brownell , Mark Lord , David Miller , jkosina@suse.cz, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh. In-Reply-To: <20080328102010.GA633@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20080327160700.GB828@suse.de> <200803272358.20081.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080328091645.GI21413@elte.hu> <200803280249.42193.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080328102010.GA633@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 870 Lines: 18 On Friday 2008-03-28 11:20, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > it's not just about being gentle: it's that there are thousands of > .config options that are confusing to most users, so our defaults and > rules must make sense. If we think that an approach is superior (which > your new RTC code certainly is), we have to take up the responsibility > of pushing that as a prominent, default choice and excluding the old > code. That ends up benefiting everyone, reduces complexity of the > kernel. You wont see anyone shed tears for the old code. Users with audio-related usage patterns do, as SND_RTCTIMER still depends on old rtc :-/ -- 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/