Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
> 
> > I think the dirstat continues to be fairly informative, with arch/ and 
> > drivers dominating as usual. And within arch, a fair amount of the line 
> > noise are all those defconfigs. I wish we had some saner way of handling 
> > that
> 
> We (the arch maintainers) could try to do the bulk of the defconfig
> updates at about -rc2 or -rc3 time, if you'd prefer.

Well, that part isn't the one that I think is bothersome - I just wonder 
if the whole "defconfig" mess is worth keeping with the kernel at _all_.

It also causes tons of noise whenever I happen to do something like "git 
grep CONFIG_XYZZY" to see where some config variable is used etc.

So I was more wondering whether maybe there could be better ways of doing 
that whole thing. 

		Linus