From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758198AbYDBOul (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:50:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753794AbYDBOuc (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:50:32 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50619 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753343AbYDBOuc (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:50:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:50:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Paul Mackerras cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8 In-Reply-To: <18418.44094.156352.405647@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <18418.44094.156352.405647@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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