From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936246AbXGZSRk (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:17:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936161AbXGZSQy (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:16:54 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:55316 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936116AbXGZSQv (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:16:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:16:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: david@lang.hm cc: Len Brown , Andrew Morton , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200707251238.50218.lenb@kernel.org> <200707260026.08183.lenb@kernel.org> <200707261345.29902.lenb@kernel.org> 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 Thu, 26 Jul 2007, david@lang.hm wrote: > > how about the fact that Linus found the problem becouse his system didn't work > right? No, it works, it just forces me to use a configuration that I'm not personally interested in on that particular machine. I tend to like using minimal kernels. I don't use modules on most of my machines, and I actually look over my config. Maybe I'm odd. But I think it's a good thing to let people decide what they want (and what they do _not_ want) in their kernels. I think forcing people to use CPU_HOTPLUG is a mistake. There's a reason that existed as a config option. The ACPI changes basically mean that the whole CPU_HOTPLUG config option is totally pointless, because everybody is forced to have it. Linus