Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760617AbXELTiX (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 15:38:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756653AbXELTiQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 15:38:16 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:58950 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756874AbXELTiP (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 15:38:15 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 21:37:27 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jens Axboe cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@infradead.org Subject: Re: default y idiocy In-Reply-To: <20070512192726.GQ4629@kernel.dk> Message-ID: References: <20070512182343.GO4629@kernel.dk> <20070512192726.GQ4629@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 857 Lines: 28 On May 12 2007 21:27, Jens Axboe wrote: >On Sat, May 12 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> On May 12 2007 20:23, Jens Axboe wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >This has bothered me for a long time, and it just seems to be getting >> >worse. Can people please STOP defaulting non-essential stuff to 'y'? >> >Grrr. >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/8/76 > >Sorry, I don't buy that reason at all - it's a short term advantage, >causing long term pain. It's not what we have done in the past, don't >start doing crap like that now. Right, I shall create some patches to revert that and send them off to Linus ASAP. Jan -- - 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/