Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:23:13 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] SCSI: split Kconfig menu into two |
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >>>> Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to >>>> add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers. >>> Kconfig is a user interface, so perfect is what is best for the >>> kconfig users. >> Duplicate options with different names in different menus, but which all >> do the same, --- is this the best for users? > > I recognize it's a rhetorical question :) The answer is of course "no". > > I hope the other participants of this thread register the severe > disinclination of the maintainers to change this stuff, as this is a > classic case of making a mountain out of a molehill[1]. > > For the -vast majority- of people configuring the kernel, this is not a > problem. Kernel people are -expected- to know what they're doing,
I doubt your claim is true since the vast majority of kconfig users are most likely not kernel developers.
@Greg: Do you have any numbers regarding how your "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" is selling? Even download numbers?
> especially when switching from one major subsystem to another.
It's not only about switching, the same problems awaits people when configuring a kernel for their hardware the first time.
> Therefore, all this is IMO wasted effort and hot air. There are far more > important issues to deal with.
Why don't we dump kconfig and write the .config by hand? ;-)
More seriously: Yes, there are many other important issues in the kernel. But not fixing kconfig UI problems doesn't fix these issues faster.
I have seen people running into problems because some required option wasn't set - in the simplest cases things like IDE without DMA because a help text wasn't updated when more hardware support was added to a driver.
You might not care about the kconfig users. But other people do.
> Jeff >...
cu Adrian
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