On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:28:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > And ditto EXPERT. Is there really any benefit in hiding config options > from developers so they won't burn their fingers? Or is there some > other reason for EXPERT? Absolutely. If say CONFIG_TMPFS is disabled, Debian simply won't boot past init scripts. Or CONFIG_UNIX (I'm almost sure, reasonably modern distro is unusable anyway). > Anyway, we already have a way to prevent fingers from getting burnt: > defconfig. Start out with that and carefully modify it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
