Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751693AbaDARdD (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:33:03 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34199 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751470AbaDARdB (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:33:01 -0400 Message-ID: <533AF83E.6090202@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:32:46 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/platforms for v3.15 References: <20140401082757.GA23451@gmail.com> <533AF612.8020505@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/01/2014 10:31 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>> (a) people don't know about, so asking people about it is f*cking >>> retarded to begin with >> >> Well, that is why it is an EXPERT option. > > That's a cop-out. Because if you're *not* an expert, now it won't ask > about it, but it will just enable it because it's "default y". > > So you got rid of the question, but you silently enabled the code THAT > MAKES NO SENSE FOR 99.9% of all users. > > When I do "make oldconfig" on all my machines I sure as hell don't > suddenly want to find some driver that makes no sense in my > configuration. > > See? It's stupid. It's wrong. It's *bad*. > > And I'm not pulling stupid and wrong things (ok, well, I probably do > pull bad stuff all the time, but at least not intentionally and > knowingly). > Yes, please drop it. Next cycle we'll get it properly modularized. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/