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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:31:09 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Gabriel C <crazy@...pmylinux.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/, drivers/net/ , missing EXPERIMENTAL in menus On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:25:30 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > ... > > >> I would consider it more ugly to special case this and that in the > > >> kconfig code when plain dependencies already offer exactly the same > > >> functionality... > > > > > > well, this is the *third* time i've proposed adding this kind of > > > feature so, at this point, i've really given up caring about it. if > > > someone wants to do this, have at it. i have better things to do than > > > to keep suggesting it and getting nowhere with it. > > > > For better or worse, it can often be observed that feature requests > > don't set anything in motion until a first patch is sent. Even a > > patch that is far from perfect can get things going really quickly. > > (If the requested feature makes sense to other people.) > > i *did* submit a preliminary patch once upon a time, and it > (predictably) went nowhere. so, if someone else wants to pick this up > and do something with it, you have my blessing. life's too short to > keep wasting time on this. I think that Stefan means a patch to the kconfig source code, not the the Kconfig files. Good luck. I'd still like to see it. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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