linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] early_printk: consolidate random copies of identical code

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Message-Id: <20130307165642.00153a01.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:56:42 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] early_printk: consolidate random copies of identical
 code

On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 19:49:35 -0500 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:

> > otoh, offering useless stuff to non-kernel-developers has downsides
> > with no balancing benefit, and we really should optimise things for
> > our users because there are so many more of them than there are of us.
> 
> Glad to hear that, and I agree totally.  I hope the above three lines
> will persuade people to merge practical/sane dependency lines that
> have the end users in mind, instead of focusing on ease of local testing.

It is possible to just ignore the Kconfig system and type "make
drivers/foo/bar.o".  Sometimes this actually works.

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