On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:00:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:58 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > There's no reason for getting linux-kernel swamped with > > > "my kernel doesn't boot" messages by people who accidentally disabled > > > this option. > > > > By that logic, you should make it necessary to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED > > before you can set CONFIG_EXT3 != Y or CONFIG_IDE != Y too. > > That's the difference between Aunt Tillie and a system administrator: > A system administrator knows which filesystems he wants to use. > > > However you dress it up, it's pandering to someone who either lacks the > > wit, or just can't be bothered, to _look_ at what they're doing when > > they configure their kernel. And it's a bad thing. > > We already have too many user visible options Examples please. > and too many ways for people to create non-working kernels. > > There's no need for additional traps. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
