From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shouldn't kconfig defaults match recommendations in help text?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:36:44 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408242133440.2770@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0408242042150.12756@scrub.home>
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > Would patches to change default configuration choices to match the
> > recommendation given in the help text (if any) be acceptable? If not I'd
> > be interrested in the reasons why not.
>
> Different configurations require different defaults and the current help
> text is rather static. The basic problem is that most recommendations are
> rather ix86 specific. I think an overuse of defaults is the wrong way to
> go.
>
I'll be sure to keep that in mind.
I will not go crazy with this and make everything default to the
recommendations but try and only do it where it actually makes good sense
- I'm hoping for people to review these patches and comment on the
"saneness".
--
Jesper Juhl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-24 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 18:57 Jesper Juhl
2004-08-24 18:52 ` Roman Zippel
2004-08-24 19:36 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2004-08-23 21:50 Jesper Juhl
2004-08-24 15:01 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-08-24 17:03 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-08-24 18:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-24 19:33 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-08-24 20:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-24 21:14 ` Jesper Juhl
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