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On January 3, 2002 06:42 am, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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... Have you tried Eric's config code lately? It's getting *really nice*. The 'search' feature alone makes it worth it, and the intelligent tree organization, and the consistency rules, and... I'm now configging 2.4.17 with Eric-config, other trees with good-old-config, and I can tell you which one I prefer. -- Daniel - 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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