linux-kernel - Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG

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Date:	Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Elyse M. Grasso" <emgrasso@...a-raptors.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kbuild-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@...or.de>
Subject: Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if
 !CONFIG_SYSCTL)

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
> 
> Thanks. I will be specific, after i will finish, what i already have,
> to make air a bit less hot. Of course everything will be back
> compatible, so nothing to worry about (the rewrite).

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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