Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752535AbWAFUQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:16:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752534AbWAFUQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:16:23 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:55505 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752530AbWAFUQW (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:16:22 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change defconfig to NR_CPUS==1024 From: Alan Cox To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Christoph Lameter , "Randy.Dunlap" , Matthew Wilcox , "Luck, Tony" , hawkes@sgi.com, Tony Luck , Andrew Morton , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Steiner , Dan Higgins , John Hesterberg , Greg Edwards In-Reply-To: <1136573948.2940.65.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20060106174957.GF19769@parisc-linux.org> <1136573948.2940.65.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:17:46 +0000 Message-Id: <1136578666.2548.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 18 On Gwe, 2006-01-06 at 19:59 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > things differently; when a config option needs deciding you look at the > description and pick a good value. That's it. Defconfig doesn't matter. defconfig is 'Linus config', and he's stated as much before along with polite hints that this wasn't going to change. The vendor default config s are actually far saner for most users. Do vendors look at defconfig - not really, much more interesting is every other vendors config choices 8) Alan - 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/