From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/platforms for v3.15
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:32:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <533AF83E.6090202@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFx+8x+mh=iOfg2Yz6XBwG-Otw+wegLrP67uppERuC9WBw@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/01/2014 10:31 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>>> (a) people don't know about, so asking people about it is f*cking
>>> retarded to begin with
>>
>> Well, that is why it is an EXPERT option.
>
> That's a cop-out. Because if you're *not* an expert, now it won't ask
> about it, but it will just enable it because it's "default y".
>
> So you got rid of the question, but you silently enabled the code THAT
> MAKES NO SENSE FOR 99.9% of all users.
>
> When I do "make oldconfig" on all my machines I sure as hell don't
> suddenly want to find some driver that makes no sense in my
> configuration.
>
> See? It's stupid. It's wrong. It's *bad*.
>
> And I'm not pulling stupid and wrong things (ok, well, I probably do
> pull bad stuff all the time, but at least not intentionally and
> knowingly).
>
Yes, please drop it. Next cycle we'll get it properly modularized.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-01 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-01 8:27 [GIT PULL] x86/platforms for v3.15 Ingo Molnar
2014-04-01 17:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-01 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-01 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-01 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-04-03 0:02 ` David E. Box
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