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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Oleg Verych <olecom@...>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@...>, Elyse M. Grasso <emgrasso@...>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...>, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <kbuild-devel@...>, Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@...>
Subject: Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL)
Date: Saturday, October 6, 2007 - 12:03 pm

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:

Qutie frankly, this kind of "I'll tell you more when I'm done" is not 
generally a very working approach. 

If it's all backwards-compatible with the current Kconfig format, I guess 
it's not too bad, but historically speaking, the people who went off on 
their own and redesigned something from scratch have not been successful 
(and the CML2 thing is a good example of that).

Incremental improvements actually tend to do better than "redesign".  
That's largely true outside of computer science too..

		Linus
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[PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Andreas Herrmann, (Tue Sep 18, 4:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Andrew Morton, (Thu Sep 20, 2:31 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Nick Piggin, (Thu Sep 27, 5:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Sep 28, 10:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Nick Piggin, (Thu Sep 27, 8:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Elyse M. Grasso, (Fri Sep 28, 1:12 pm)
A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error ..., Oleg Verych, (Mon Oct 1, 3:27 am)
Re: [kbuild-devel] A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p:..., Roman Zippel, (Thu Oct 4, 10:35 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Oleg Verych, (Sat Oct 6, 11:26 am)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Linus Torvalds, (Sat Oct 6, 12:03 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Oleg Verych, (Sat Oct 6, 1:51 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Oct 6, 2:59 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Oleg Verych, (Sat Oct 6, 4:47 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Oct 6, 5:10 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Oleg Verych, (Sat Oct 6, 6:07 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Oct 8, 4:22 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Oleg Verych, (Mon Oct 8, 5:25 pm)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Geert Uytterhoeven, (Sun Oct 7, 5:49 am)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Elyse M. Grasso, (Mon Oct 1, 8:53 am)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile er..., Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Oct 1, 4:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Arjan van de Ven, (Fri Sep 28, 1:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Andreas Herrmann, (Thu Sep 20, 3:23 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, roel, (Tue Sep 18, 2:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Andreas Herrmann, (Tue Sep 18, 4:15 pm)