Re: [PATCH v2] early_printk: consolidate random copies of identicalcode

[Andrew Morton]

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