From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268247AbUHXTc5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:32:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268239AbUHXTc4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:32:56 -0400 Received: from mail.dif.dk ([193.138.115.101]:12744 "EHLO mail.dif.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268247AbUHXTbJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:31:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:36:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Jesper Juhl To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Shouldn't kconfig defaults match recommendations in help text? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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