Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2

Paul Svensson (paul@lysator.liu.se)
24 May 1996 05:45:36 GMT


"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
>I agree with you in general, but the problem is that there are too many
>tuning knobs already. Asking the user to go through a complicated list
>of checklist items, which for typical usage will always be set in a
>certain way, is just poor design. Especially since we're not even
>testing most of the combinations of compilation options --- that's
>combinatorically impossible right now.

Why not just put a (STANDARD/ADVANCED) knob at the beginning,
the same way there is a (STABLE/EXPERIMENTAL) knob already ?

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