Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750731AbVIJJsG (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:48:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750733AbVIJJsG (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:48:06 -0400 Received: from oldconomy.demon.nl ([212.238.217.56]:19427 "EHLO artemis.slagter.name") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750731AbVIJJsF (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:48:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] [2.6.13-mm2] set IBM ThinkPad extras to default n in Kconfig From: Erik Slagter To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Roman Zippel , "Brown, Len" , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050910094259.GA16051@gollum.tnic> References: <20050910094259.GA16051@gollum.tnic> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; boundary="=-YU9GlqSHEzGP9hX2CZHr" Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:47:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1126345645.4766.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-1.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4527 Lines: 80 --=-YU9GlqSHEzGP9hX2CZHr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 11:42 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:25:00PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > =20 > > The best would be to avoid using defaults completely, unless the result= ing=20 > > 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=20 > > 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=20 > > configure a kernel. >=20 > 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 Kb= uild > 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. 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