From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ARM defconfig files
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:53:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006031146580.8175@i5.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100603184104.GC25779@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Russell King wrote:
>
> The problem comes with driver configuration, where you have to go
> through lots of menus to find all the drivers for the platform/SoC.
> That's the tedious bit, and more often than not it takes several
> attempts to get everything that's necessary.
It's often tedious for other cases too ("I just want to enable a
particular driver, what do I need to do so?"), and I do agree with Daniel
that the SAT solver approach sounds interesting as a way to solve some of
the complexities.
At the same time, "SAT solver" does scream "over-engineering failure" to
me. We've had horribly bad experiences with over-engineering in that space
before. Yes, I know about MiniSAT and that these things can be done
without necessarily huge amounts of complex code, but these things tend to
grow to huge monsters.
Who knows.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-03 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20100603074548.GA12104@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-03 14:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 16:46 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-03 18:13 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 21:33 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-03 22:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-04 4:59 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-04 0:23 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-06-04 4:53 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-04 1:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-04 5:29 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-04 6:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-06-04 6:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-06-04 8:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-03 16:53 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-08 15:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-06-08 16:37 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 18:10 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 18:53 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 19:20 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 19:35 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 19:45 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 19:49 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 19:57 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 20:06 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 20:18 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 20:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-04 1:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-03 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 20:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 21:17 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-06-03 22:15 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-04 5:18 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-06-04 11:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-06-03 22:24 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-05 14:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-06-05 14:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-05 16:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-06-03 21:48 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-04 0:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2010-06-04 12:39 ` Grant Likely
2010-06-05 13:47 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-06-03 20:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-06-03 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-06 3:28 ` david
2010-06-03 18:20 ` Daniel Walker
2010-06-03 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-03 18:30 ` Al Viro
2010-06-03 19:26 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-14 8:32 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-06-30 10:40 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-12 15:55 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-12 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 17:32 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-12 17:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 18:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-12 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 19:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 19:50 ` Grant Likely
2010-07-13 7:07 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-13 8:07 ` optimized script [Was: ARM defconfig files] Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-13 18:04 ` Olof Johansson
2010-07-13 23:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-13 18:32 ` ARM defconfig files Grant Likely
2010-07-12 19:59 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-12 20:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 19:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 20:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-12 20:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 23:05 ` David Brown
2010-07-12 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12 23:34 ` David Brown
2010-07-13 0:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-14 9:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-07-14 13:20 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-07-14 17:37 ` Tony Luck
2010-07-13 18:32 ` Rob Landley
2010-07-12 20:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-12 20:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-07-12 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-14 9:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-06-03 18:41 ` Russell King
2010-06-03 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-06-06 3:53 ` david
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.LFD.2.00.1006031146580.8175@i5.linux-foundation.org \
--to=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=dwalker@codeaurora.org \
--cc=khilman@deeprootsystems.com \
--cc=linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=rmk@arm.linux.org.uk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome