Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030484AbVJGQU3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:20:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030485AbVJGQU3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:20:29 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:9389 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030484AbVJGQU2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:20:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:20:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Steven Rostedt cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell firmware default config options? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <43469A9A.2070104@beezmo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 988 Lines: 26 On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > I'm just curious why the Dell firmware configuration options are default > to "m" instead of "n". Since it only matters if you have a Dell System. > > So for the huge number of systems that are not Dell Systems, they are > probably wasting CPU cycles compiling these as modules, and taking up > space in loads of /lib/modules directories throughout the world ;-) > > DCDBAS explicitly states default of "m", and DELL_RBU has no default which > just makes it automatically on. > > Is there any reason that these shouldn't be turned off by default? Agreed, and there's already been a patch to do that. It's probably sitting in -mm... (just guessing), but could easily move upward IMO. -- ~Randy - 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/