On January 3, 2002 06:42 am, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Dave Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > o Aunt Tilley.
> > > Vendors already ship an array of kernels which should make it
> > > unnecessary for her to have to build a kernel.
> > >
> >
> > There is a clear advantage to kernel developers in making things as
> > easy as possible for Aunt Tilley to use our latest output.
> >
> > If the difficulty of installing the latest kernel prevents her from
> > doing that, she loses. And so do we, because we don't get to know
> > if we've fixed her problem.
> >
> > If Eric can get the entire download-config-build-install process
> > down to a single mouse click, he'll have done us all a great service.
>
> OTOH if dumbing down the kernel config costs kernel developers
> productivity and increases the noise-to-signal ratio on lkml, it's a
> disservice...
Have you tried Eric's config code lately? It's getting *really nice*. The
'search' feature alone makes it worth it, and the intelligent tree
organization, and the consistency rules, and...
I'm now configging 2.4.17 with Eric-config, other trees with good-old-config,
and I can tell you which one I prefer.
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