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

[Linus Torvalds]

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
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