Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753314Ab1CNUHG (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:07:06 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.44.51]:8123 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751814Ab1CNUHD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:07:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=google.com; s=beta; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dAjzSmsDhZjIl0cHWaRuPgBSc/1xcr1z/XHUsbQwDMG9KM2LwLOMBVq6Txc+CL9Of5 UwZ0TC1SYSH1quc1tyIg== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110314195937.GA594@kroah.com> References: <20110312014254.6133.43079.stgit@mike.mtv.corp.google.com> <20110312014347.6133.4388.stgit@mike.mtv.corp.google.com> <20110314154510.GE31340@kroah.com> <20110314195937.GA594@kroah.com> From: Mike Waychison Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:06:41 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/12] Introduce CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE To: Greg KH Cc: Matt Domsch , Alan Cox , Duncan Laurie , Aaron Durbin , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Hockin , San Mehat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 37 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:49:17PM -0700, Mike Waychison wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:43:47PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote: >> >> In order to keep Google's firmware drivers organized amongst themselves, >> >> create a new directory for them to live in. ?As well, all Google >> >> firmware drivers are gated on CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE=y, which defaults >> >> to 'n' in the kernel build. >> > >> > Everything defaults to 'n' in the kernel build system, so this really >> > isn't a big deal :) >> >> Well, I was hoping that we could have options gating on >> CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE, but default to 'y'. ?This makes our lives a >> bit easier as it means we have a single switch we need to enable on >> our side and all the options we care about (presumably all >> google-specific drivers) get enabled. >> >> If you have strong objections to this, I can flip the default values >> of the specific config options to 'n' as well though... > > As decreed by Linus and others, all new config options should default to > 'n', unless your box is going to blow up into tiny pieces if you don't > select it. Fair enough. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- 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/