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Andrew Morton wrote: > > Dave Jones wrote: > > > > o Aunt Tilley. > > Vendors already ship an array of kernels which should make it > > unnecessary for her to have to build a kernel. > > > > There is a clear advantage to kernel developers in making things as > easy as possible for Aunt Tilley to use our latest output. > > If the difficulty of installing the latest kernel prevents her from > doing that, she loses. And so do we, because we don't get to know > if we've fixed her problem. > > If Eric can get the entire download-config-build-install process > down to a single mouse click, he'll have done us all a great service. OTOH if dumbing down the kernel config costs kernel developers productivity and increases the noise-to-signal ratio on lkml, it's a disservice... Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Only so many songs can be sung Building 1024 | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue. MandrakeSoft | - nomeansno - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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