Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:46:17 -0700 | Subject | Re: CONFIG_* used by user-space to figure out whether a feature is on/off | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote: > > If life was that simple.. This particular issue was with inhibiting certain > config stanzas if certain features were not built in the kernel. Here is the > bug that started it: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633127
Can somebody please open a grub/xen ticket that says all of this is just too confusing and broken, and that it should just be removed entirely instead of expanded upon?
This is a grub bug. It really is that simple. Treat it as one.
I don't want to break user space applications, but this isn't a "user-space app". This is "broken kernel support", and when that happens, we call them out for being buggy and don't support them (example: all the gcc bugs that have caused us problems over the years).
Linus
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