Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL)

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Saturday, October 6, 2007 - 9:03 am

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:

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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[PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Andreas Herrmann, (Tue Sep 18, 1:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Andreas Herrmann, (Tue Sep 18, 1:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Andrew Morton, (Wed Sep 19, 11:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Andreas Herrmann, (Thu Sep 20, 12:23 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Nick Piggin, (Thu Sep 27, 2:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Nick Piggin, (Thu Sep 27, 5:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Sep 28, 7:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Arjan van de Ven, (Fri Sep 28, 10:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile error if !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Elyse M. Grasso, (Fri Sep 28, 10:12 am)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile ..., Linus Torvalds, (Sat Oct 6, 9:03 am)
Re: A bit of kconfig rewrite (Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix compile ..., Geert Uytterhoeven, (Sun Oct 7, 2:49 am)