Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:59:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: kms in defconfig |
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Tejun Heo wrote: > > I think defconfig should enable options such that it shows where > upstream kernel is headed, so FWIW +1 for KMS from me.
I'd actually love to get rid of the stupid defconfig's entirely. They've lost pretty much all relevance over the years, except for specific cases where you might have defconfigs that are for specific platforms.
IOW, the embedded kind of "per-platform defconfig" at lest is a useful starting point. But even there I'm not 100% sure that it makes sense to pollute the kernel source tree with them - they mess up things like
git grep PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD
horribly.
IOW, they're likely to be more pain than they are worth. And they really aren't useful starting points for normal people (who are probably better off starting with their distro kernel config) or likely even for most kernel developers (who hopefully have noticed that they can install a per-machine defconfig in /etc/kernel-config and forget about it).
I'd love to just delete them all.
Linus
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