Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 19:02:16 -0400 | From | Robert L Krawitz <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 |
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 18:47:53 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
I agree with you in general, but the problem is that there are too many tuning knobs already. Asking the user to go through a complicated list of checklist items, which for typical usage will always be set in a certain way, is just poor design. Especially since we're not even testing most of the combinations of compilation options --- that's combinatorically impossible right now.
I appreciate the testing issue, but I don't think we're ready for one size fits all yet. I don't think it's poor design to have a lot of options available, if there are good reasons for it. Perhaps there's a way of requiring (for people who use xconfig or menuconfig, at least) people to do something slightly unusual to have more config options exposed.
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