Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758267AbZDXVYU (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:24:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756279AbZDXVYH (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:24:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.flash.net.br ([201.46.240.48]:40542 "EHLO smtp.gru.flash.tv.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755671AbZDXVYG (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:24:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:23:12 -0300 From: =?utf-8?Q?Rog=C3=A9rio?= Brito To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: Kumar Gala , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Regarding the linkstation defconfig Message-ID: <20090424212311.GA7858@ime.usp.br> References: <20090424065816.GA15525@ime.usp.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2095 Lines: 50 Dear Guennadi, and Kumar. On Apr 24 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Guennadi, since you seem to be the one responsible for the > > linkstation/kurobox in the kernel, > > That's not howI interpret my role in linkstation development / > support. Sorry. I thought that you were. I have, nonetheless, interest in helping and understanding more about the platform. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > 01. why is anticipatory the default scheduler for linkstations when CFQ > > is the default scheduler for the rest of the kernel? (...) > > 12. wouldn't it be a good thing to enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME? > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > As I already replied to you earlier, I am not particularly interested in > fine-tuning and optimisation of defconfigs. IMHO *_defconfigs are only > examples of board configuration, that are known to build and work. The > rest is up to the user / packager. IMVHO, defconfigs should be examples of board configuration, known to build and work (like you said) *and* be, in a way, exemplary to the user/packager. > > Again, please, forgive my ignorance here regarding the questions above. > > I'm really looking for some clarification and to get things in shape > > both on my systems and in the default kernel configuration, in general. > > Feel free to submit patches with reasoning to the powerpc ML and > respective maintainer as per MAINTAINERS file. I'm doing that as a reply to this message. Thanks for your guiding, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- 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/