From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:20:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:20:47 -0400 Received: from marine.sonic.net ([208.201.224.37]:37124 "HELO marine.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:20:37 -0400 X-envelope-info: Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:20:32 -0700 From: Mike Castle To: CML2 Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Urban Widmark , John Stoffel , cate@dplanet.ch, Peter Samuelson , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Hierarchy doesn't solve the problem Message-ID: <20010503152031.A27366@thune.mrc-home.com> Reply-To: Mike Castle Mail-Followup-To: Mike Castle , CML2 , "Eric S. Raymond" , Urban Widmark , John Stoffel , cate@dplanet.ch, Peter Samuelson , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010503030431.A25141@thyrsus.com> <20010503034620.A27880@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <20010503034620.A27880@thyrsus.com>; from esr@thyrsus.com on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:46:20AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:46:20AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > What's to prefer? You get essentially the same behavior unless you start > with a broken config. What's going to happen when this interconnected behavior results in a previously acceptable config becomes broken (by definition) with a later kernel version? We're going to have hundreds of people complaining about this. Not just one or two. mrc -- Mike Castle Life is like a clock: You can work constantly dalgoda@ix.netcom.com and be right all the time, or not work at all www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen