Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:36:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:36:14 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:44818 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:36:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Disgusted with kbuild developers To: dlang@diginsite.com (David Lang) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 00:49:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "David Lang" at Feb 15, 2002 03:51:09 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 'press' reports was that it was the CML1 guys who said they wanted to > throw it out and start from scratch. I don't know what role Eric had in > the discussion, but it sure didn't sound like it was him alone prompting > the change. I was at the summit but I guess I missed any real discussion on it, other than the out of meeting sequence with Linus basically yelling at Eric over some CML2 stuff. I still hold the opinion the CML1 declarations are sufficient, and that mconfig is more than enough to do what we need, possibly coupled with some automatic rule validation stuff. Michael Chastain fixed the nasty parsing mess in 1998 - 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/