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, 10 Oct 2002 13:45:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:45:40 -0400 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:64017 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:45:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:51:23 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel , kbuild-devel Subject: Re: linux kernel conf 0.8 Message-ID: <20021010195123.A13678@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Garzik , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel , kbuild-devel References: <3DA58C1E.3090102@pobox.com> <20021010192924.A13618@mars.ravnborg.org> <3DA5B99B.5080707@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DA5B99B.5080707@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:32:11PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:32:11PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > The kernel is written for people with a clue. For people without a > clue, they should use a vendor kernel or ESR's Aunt-Tillie-friendly system. > > Dumbing-down the kernel is never the right answer. Well I'm not talking about dumbing-down the kernel. What I'm talking about is to keep existing functionality. For sure the kernel is made for people with a clue, but still people with a clue sometimes makes stupid mistakes. A build system that catches obvious stupid mistakes is IMHO a good thing. But it shall not that for any cost, and the normal incremental build shall continue to be as fast as possible. Sam