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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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