Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:36:18 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kconfig: untangle EXPERT and EMBEDDED |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:04:41 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:28:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > And ditto EXPERT. Is there really any benefit in hiding config options > > from developers so they won't burn their fingers? Or is there some > > other reason for EXPERT? > > Absolutely. > > If say CONFIG_TMPFS is disabled, Debian simply won't boot past > init scripts. Or CONFIG_UNIX (I'm almost sure, reasonably > modern distro is unusable anyway). >
If you screw up your kernel config, the resulting kernel won't work right. There are countless ways of doing this. You go back to the previous .config and try again.
Is there some benefit to handholding people in a few special cases? Well yes, I suppose so. But does that benefit justify all the gunk we've added to Kconfig to implement it? I don't think so.
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