From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
"Elyse M. Grasso" <emgrasso@data-raptors.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
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 09:03:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710060900040.23684@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071006152614.GC22435@flower.upol.cz>
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
>
> 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).
Qutie frankly, this kind of "I'll tell you more when I'm done" is not
generally a very working approach.
If it's all backwards-compatible with the current Kconfig format, I guess
it's not too bad, but historically speaking, the people who went off on
their own and redesigned something from scratch have not been successful
(and the CML2 thing is a good example of that).
Incremental improvements actually tend to do better than "redesign".
That's largely true outside of computer science too..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-06 16:04 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
2007-10-06 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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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