Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:59:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:59:19 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:36100 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:59:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3A22A7D8.13BEF4B6@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:28:40 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test11 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chmouel Boudjnah CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mandrake Install Subject: Re: Universal debug macros. In-Reply-To: <200011270045.BAA13121@cave.bitwizard.nl> <8vsno2$pc6$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <3A229E41.B3C278E2@transmeta.com> <3A22A0C9.6888B08@transmeta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > > > It's not that slow compared to a whole distro install, although you would > > of course want to do it *optionally*. > > that would be for sure, but keep in mind by experiences most people > sent us a /lot/ of bug reports because they don't know how to do even > if we wrote (IT IS ONLY FOR EXPERIENCED PEOPLE). Let say a scenario : > > dumb^Hjoe user make a expert install even if he don't have any clue > about what is a kernel or a compiler or even drivers (yep we have some > users like this) > joe user choose to compile kernel > click on everything (sound fun all this checkboxes) > choose to reboot on his kernel (this sound too cook he can make some > uname -r on IRC to show ''his'' kernel) > reboot and sure he put some idiotic options like IDE in modules. > > as i said it's a very special case but we have so much strangness in > our buisness... > > You may say that don't let the user choose the wrong option (ie: > don't let to choose to put IDE as modules when he has installed on an > only IDE partition), but there is too much case to handle... > > > You wouldn't want to get into every single option, of course, but I > > what do you purpose of something else of every single of options ? > I'm talking about crap like the global compile options (processor, SMP, etc.) -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/