Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 2010 11:53:25 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: ARM defconfig files |
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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
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