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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers
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Hi,

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:23 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > As I said, I do not care about default value. And you should not care,
> > too, since distros are likely to pick their own defaults.
> 
> If the default value does not matter then the default should remain at
> 1000 so as to not violate the principle of least surprise for people who
> run "make oldconfig".  Why is this so hard for people to understand?

Because people who run "make oldconfig" are expected to have some clue 
about how to read help texts. Please get some, thanks.

bye, Roman