From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Elyse M. Grasso" <emgrasso@data-raptors.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL)
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:26:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071006152614.GC22435@flower.upol.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710050408550.1819@scrub.home>
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:35:41AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
>
> > Today's kconfig was proposed and accepted in a very unpleasant
> > circumstances, has very poor design, development and no working
> > alternative (for 5+ years now).
>
> If you want to make such statements, you have to offer a little more than
> the hot air you're producing right now...
...
> If you want to improve the design, you're more than welcome. I'm the first
> one to admit that there's still lots of room for improvement, but if you
> want to claim this can only be done via a rewrite, then you have to be
> a lot more specific what's wrong the current design and why it's
> unfixable.
> Quite some thought has been put into this design and if you were a little
> more specific, I could actually tell you why it is this way and maybe how
> to improve it incrementally instead of trying to reinvent everything.
Thanks. I will be specific, after i will finish, what i already have,
to make air a bit less hot. Of course everything will be back
compatible, so nothing to worry about (the rewrite).
____
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-06 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 8:05 [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL Andreas Herrmann
2007-09-18 18:53 ` roel
2007-09-18 20:15 ` Andreas Herrmann
2007-09-20 6:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-20 7:23 ` Andreas Herrmann
2007-09-27 21:40 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 14:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-28 0:05 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 17:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-28 17:12 ` Elyse M. Grasso
2007-10-01 7:27 ` A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL) Oleg Verych
2007-10-01 8:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-01 12:53 ` Elyse M. Grasso
2007-10-05 2:35 ` [kbuild-devel] " Roman Zippel
2007-10-06 15:26 ` Oleg Verych [this message]
2007-10-06 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-06 17:51 ` Oleg Verych
2007-10-06 18:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-06 20:47 ` Oleg Verych
2007-10-06 21:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-06 22:07 ` Oleg Verych
2007-10-07 9:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-08 20:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-08 21:25 ` Oleg Verych
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