From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: default y idiocy
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 22:05:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070512200516.GS4629@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46461C77.5040404@simon.arlott.org.uk>
On Sat, May 12 2007, Simon Arlott wrote:
> On 12/05/07 19:23, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >This has bothered me for a long time, and it just seems to be getting
> >worse. Can people please STOP defaulting non-essential stuff to 'y'?
> >Grrr.
>
> Is there a reason why various 10/100/1000Mbit network cards are 'y' too?
> There's even a default SCSI 'm' that seems to be completely hidden from
> the menu too (CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN). It depends on SCSI but I can't
> disable SCSI...
For the exact same (wrong) reason that the other menuconfig changes did
it, I suppose. Need fixing, too.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-12 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-12 18:23 default y idiocy Jens Axboe
2007-05-12 19:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 19:27 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-12 19:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-12 19:45 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-12 20:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-13 0:46 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-05-12 20:09 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-12 20:09 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-12 19:58 ` Simon Arlott
2007-05-12 20:05 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-05-12 20:56 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-13 16:46 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-12 21:14 ` Satyam Sharma
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