Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:18:44 -0800 (PST)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change defconfig to NR_CPUS==1024
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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.

Right (Linus's config) for i386 (& ppc64 ?).
Probably not his for ia64 or Arm...

> Do vendors look at defconfig - not really, much more interesting is
> every other vendors config choices 8)

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~Randy
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