Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:42:59 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <petkov@uni-muenster.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, akpm@osdl.org,
       acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.6.13-mm2] set IBM ThinkPad extras to default n in Kconfig
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:25:00PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
 
> The best would be to avoid using defaults completely, unless the resulting 
> kernel is non-functional (e.g. it doesn't compile or boot).
> So far it's still the responsibility of the user to explicitly turn 
> everything on he needs (at least until we have a functional autoconfig).
> BTW distros are not the only users, from them I would expect how to 
> configure a kernel.

Actually, this sounds pretty sane and IMHO is somehow the biggest common
denominator concerning linux users and their kernel configuration
recreational activities :); but seriously, going all over the menus of Kbuild
and turning everything off is a lot of work compared to turning on the
several things I need on my system. "default m" is also not a good thing
since compiling of unnecessary modules is simply dumb for a system
that's just not going to use them.

Regards,
		Boris.
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