Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932426AbVJRIrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:47:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932425AbVJRIrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:47:21 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49362 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932426AbVJRIrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:47:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:47:06 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: mingo@elte.hu, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable PREEMPT_BKL per default Message-ID: <20051018084706.GA14666@suse.de> References: <20051016154108.25735ee3.akpm@osdl.org> <20051018074511.GA13182@suse.de> <1129622010.2779.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1129622010.2779.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 23 On Tue, Oct 18, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:45 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Do not enable this per default during make oldconfig. > > 'default $foo' should not be abused like that. > > afaik that was done to increase testing. > This thing shouldn't be a config option at all in a final release imo; > the config option as I understand it is there to be able to disable it > during the testing phase in -mm to help diagnose otherwise unexplained > issues. CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is already in Linus tree. Its disabled in our configs. -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan - 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/