On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:34:14AM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:31 AM, jkacur <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Change the Kbuild "If unsure" message to match the default.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur at gmail dot com>
>> >
>> > Index: linux-2.6.26/init/Kconfig
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- linux-2.6.26.orig/init/Kconfig
>> > +++ linux-2.6.26/init/Kconfig
>> > @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
>> > Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
>> > resulting in a smaller kernel.
>> >
>> > - If unsure, say N.
>> > + If unsure, say Y.
>> >
>> > config SYSCTL
>> > bool
>> >
>>
>> This seems like a no-brainer to me that the default and the "If
>> unsure" message should match, any reason you haven't picked-it up?
>
> Two reasons:
>
> 1) I have not started to look at new patches until now
>
> And this is due to several reasons.
> First off I have been without internet for a while.
> And secondly I do try to avoid new patches during the
> merge window which does not fix merge issues.
Ok, no problem!
>
> 2) I am not convinced that "default y" is really what we want.
> What does popular distroes use (aka what gets wide testing?).
>
Hmnn, good point, in any case there is an inconsistency here. I can
only speak for my laptop here running openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
uname -a
Linux linux-ipxk 2.6.25.11-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008-07-13 20:48:28
+0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:23:56AM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:34:14AM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:31 AM, jkacur <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Change the Kbuild "If unsure" message to match the default.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur at gmail dot com>
> >> >
> >> > Index: linux-2.6.26/init/Kconfig
> >> > ===================================================================
> >> > --- linux-2.6.26.orig/init/Kconfig
> >> > +++ linux-2.6.26/init/Kconfig
> >> > @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
> >> > Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
> >> > resulting in a smaller kernel.
> >> >
> >> > - If unsure, say N.
> >> > + If unsure, say Y.
> >> >
> >> > config SYSCTL
> >> > bool
> >> >
> >>
> >> This seems like a no-brainer to me that the default and the "If
> >> unsure" message should match, any reason you haven't picked-it up?
> >
> > Two reasons:
> >
> > 1) I have not started to look at new patches until now
> >
> > And this is due to several reasons.
> > First off I have been without internet for a while.
> > And secondly I do try to avoid new patches during the
> > merge window which does not fix merge issues.
>
> Ok, no problem!
>
> >
> > 2) I am not convinced that "default y" is really what we want.
> > What does popular distroes use (aka what gets wide testing?).
> >
>
> Hmnn, good point, in any case there is an inconsistency here. I can
> only speak for my laptop here running openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
>
> gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
> CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
> uname -a
> Linux linux-ipxk 2.6.25.11-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008-07-13 20:48:28
> +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks - I applied your patch.
Sam