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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] x86/platforms for v3.15
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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