Re: Linux 2.5.70 compile error

[William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)]

At some point in the past, Dave Jones' attribution was stripped from:
>> Given that 99% of users will be choosing option 1, it might be a
>> good thing to have the remaining options only shown if a
>> CONFIG_X86_SUBARCHS=y and have things default to option 1 if =n.

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:59:23PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Please, not more layered config options! That just makes people who
> want to enable the x440 or other alternative platform require fair
> amounts of psychic power (maybe this can be fixed with a big fat help
> message, but so can the current method).
> If you're going hide the other options away so much, then the default
> should be the generic arch, IMHO.

Or better yet, remove all the #ifdefs, finish generalizing the APIC
code, and have nothing to configure at all. For 2.7 ...


-- wli
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/