Auditing the menuconfig help entries.

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Will Newton wrote:

>> Any idea what is wrong with the !old version, in that it seems not to be
>> recommended for use?
>
> No, I'm not sure. There were a few small issues with Makefiles but I 
> think these are all fixed now. Certainly we are shipping it in a product 
> that will probably sell hundreds of thousands of units and uses pthreads 
> quite extensively. We use it because it supports upward-growing stacks 
> which the old pthreads does not. If you have any specific issues then 
> let me know and I'll go have a dig in our source repository to see if 
> there's any changes I haven't pushed upstream that I forgot about.

No, no specific issues, really just a reaction on the general "don't use 
anything but linuxthreads.old" that seems to prevail here on the list and 
in the menuconfig help texts.

/Ricard
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