Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:28:40 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Universal debug macros. |
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Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes: > > > It's not that slow compared to a whole distro install, although you would > > of course want to do it *optionally*. > > that would be for sure, but keep in mind by experiences most people > sent us a /lot/ of bug reports because they don't know how to do even > if we wrote (IT IS ONLY FOR EXPERIENCED PEOPLE). Let say a scenario : > > dumb^Hjoe user make a expert install even if he don't have any clue > about what is a kernel or a compiler or even drivers (yep we have some > users like this) > joe user choose to compile kernel > click on everything (sound fun all this checkboxes) > choose to reboot on his kernel (this sound too cook he can make some > uname -r on IRC to show ''his'' kernel) > reboot and sure he put some idiotic options like IDE in modules. > > as i said it's a very special case but we have so much strangness in > our buisness... > > You may say that don't let the user choose the wrong option (ie: > don't let to choose to put IDE as modules when he has installed on an > only IDE partition), but there is too much case to handle... > > > You wouldn't want to get into every single option, of course, but I > > what do you purpose of something else of every single of options ? >
I'm talking about crap like the global compile options (processor, SMP, etc.)
-hpa
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