From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rjw@sisk.pl, rodriguez@atheros.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: fix regression caused by regulatory config option
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:16:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810261315040.3386@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081026200939.GC12648@tuxdriver.com>
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
>
> Is it common practice to have compatibility options default to
> "y"? I'm not saying it shouldn't be, just wondering if it has been
> traditionally?
Yes. Generally the rule should be that
make oldconfig
with 'default values for all new options' should give you a configuration
that is essentially identical to the old one.
So if it's a config option to enable compatibility with old kernels, it
should default to 'y'. If it's a new driver or a new feature that didn't
exist in previous kernels, it should default to 'n'.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-26 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-26 17:30 Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-26 20:09 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-26 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-10-26 20:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-26 20:22 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-27 20:42 ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-28 7:29 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-26 20:44 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-26 22:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-28 15:13 ` Bob Copeland
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