linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers

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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:32:20 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tytso@....edu,
	arjan@...radead.org, greg@...ah.com, mcgrof@...il.com,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	sam@...nborg.org, corbet@....net, sourcejedi.lkml@...glemail.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] kconfig: streamline distro configs for testers


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:43:38 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > The following patches are in:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >     branch: kconfig
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sam's been quiet lately.  I suggest that you add this to linux-next
> > > > > now so people get a chance to poke at it.
> > > > 
> > > > I have no means of pushing into next. Would someone like to do a pull for 
> > > > me?
> > > 
> > > If suitably bribed, Stephen will add you tree directly to the 
> > > linux-nxt lineup.
> > 
> > Yep, we always needed another kconfig maintainer (Sam's being mostly 
> > busy with kbuild), and it's nice to see that Steve volunteered for 
> > that job now! ;-)
> 
> Sure why not?
> 
> I've created a new repo:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig.git
> 
> and the same changes are in the branch: for-next

Cool!

I'm wondering, what do you think about Vegard's 'warn about complex 
selects' feature for kconfig which he submitted some time ago:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/4/13

That's a really sore kconfig spot we have. It's not a bug, but it 
sure bites people again and again, and it would be nice to have some 
built-in mechanism that gently nudges us away from complex selects. 
(many of which are inadvertent or become complex after the fact)

	Ingo
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