On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorf...@xilinx.com> wrote: > It seems to me like what's confused in the defconfigs is two concepts: > 1) The requirements of a platform (what options must be set and must not > be set) > 2) The guarantee that a particular config was known to work at some > point in time.
I can't speak for other maintainers; but #2 is not something I worry about w.r.t. defconfigs. That guarantee is pretty meaningless for anything but an exact version of the kernel tree. > The first could allow you to drop 99% of the options (I think that this > mainly what Linus objects to) That, and the fact that the current files are machine-generated as opposed to something written/edited/maintained by a human. > The second is better handled with testing anyway (assuming that all of > the unmentioned options are, in fact, unset) Yup. g. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev