From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753307Ab0CBXJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:09:39 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46426 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752347Ab0CBXJi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:09:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:09:01 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Dave Airlie cc: dri-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) 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 Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's still code. And if the user didn't ask for it, it should damn well > not be there. And I repeat: unless the feature cures cancer, it's not on by default. Sometimes we split up _old_ features as config options, or do things that are meant to be turned off only for embedded people. THEN we use that whole 'default y' thing, because doing a "make oldconfig" should give you the same configuration you had before. But if it's not an old feature that used to not have a config option at all, and it doesn't cure cancer, you never EVER do "default y". Because when I do "make oldconfig", and I see a "Y" default, it makes me go "I'm not pulling that piece of sh*t". Linus