On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:44:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>>> Perfect is in the eye of the beholder. You would consequently have to
>>>> add such options into all menus which contain scsi low-level providers.
>>> Kconfig is a user interface, so perfect is what is best for the
>>> kconfig users.
>> Duplicate options with different names in different menus, but which all
>> do the same, --- is this the best for users?
>
> I recognize it's a rhetorical question :) The answer is of course "no".
>
> I hope the other participants of this thread register the severe
> disinclination of the maintainers to change this stuff, as this is a
> classic case of making a mountain out of a molehill[1].
>
> For the -vast majority- of people configuring the kernel, this is not a
> problem. Kernel people are -expected- to know what they're doing,
I doubt your claim is true since the vast majority of kconfig users
are most likely not kernel developers.
@Greg:
Do you have any numbers regarding how your "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell"
is selling?
Even download numbers?
> especially when switching from one major subsystem to another.
It's not only about switching, the same problems awaits people when
configuring a kernel for their hardware the first time.
> Therefore, all this is IMO wasted effort and hot air. There are far more
> important issues to deal with.
Why don't we dump kconfig and write the .config by hand? ;-)
More seriously:
Yes, there are many other important issues in the kernel.
But not fixing kconfig UI problems doesn't fix these issues faster.
I have seen people running into problems because some required
option wasn't set - in the simplest cases things like IDE without DMA
because a help text wasn't updated when more hardware support was added
to a driver.
You might not care about the kconfig users.
But other people do.
> Jeff
>...
cu
Adrian
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