Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:32:46 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/platforms for v3.15 |
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On 04/01/2014 10:31 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: >> >>> (a) people don't know about, so asking people about it is f*cking >>> retarded to begin with >> >> Well, that is why it is an EXPERT option. > > That's a cop-out. Because if you're *not* an expert, now it won't ask > about it, but it will just enable it because it's "default y". > > So you got rid of the question, but you silently enabled the code THAT > MAKES NO SENSE FOR 99.9% of all users. > > When I do "make oldconfig" on all my machines I sure as hell don't > suddenly want to find some driver that makes no sense in my > configuration. > > See? It's stupid. It's wrong. It's *bad*. > > And I'm not pulling stupid and wrong things (ok, well, I probably do > pull bad stuff all the time, but at least not intentionally and > knowingly). >
Yes, please drop it. Next cycle we'll get it properly modularized.
-hpa
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