On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 09:31:36PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > Valentin Rothberg schreef op wo 29-04-2015 om 16:58 [+0200]: > > Sometimes a user might be interested to filter certain reports (e.g., > > the many defconfigs). > > Is this actually useful outside of filtering out defconfigs? > > > Now, this can be achieved by specifying a Python > > regex with -i / --ignore. > > Patch hijack: it's been my view for some time now that almost all > defconfigs are outdated in one way or another. And they are outdated > because they are not, as far as I can tell, updated regularly. So I > wonder whether there are any guidelines for defconfigs. What is their > purpose? What exactly can one expect when using a defconfig?
When ever I bring this up, someone says, "but we need it to define how to select the options for my arch / board!" How real this is is really unknown to me but the arches other than x86 seem to insist that they are relevant. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
