From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F31E288AD for ; Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1749986952; cv=none; b=XnJgzds7uoJ1Mus3MIztffzH8AIo6Iqo0oKT9R2OcyjlmL2MJUmqvL9e9A9MbAd5uYSvx6/H7IJY7uIuHdRRe9MT3iGBlJjpXv8FTVPiXxfH8OD4wQb4f/gxK3d28/mvP3RoBoRRBnLw4dZcGceu99lsxi7Rj6s7TqYuY/Uu84s= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1749986952; c=relaxed/simple; bh=G/+e21hifaP8bhyvW07D9vm1h5vZCD5r+TCtnsCQB9I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=GQIl0zxemOI5r1X/T59HykRzoS19Ea4WJE5OmTfyogDxC2Yvj/JXD1tKKcLUPwJSCkmPeK27ThN920LHU6+irAblEEw0o6tkwiyWeHeuEGS7/gNV2R4tM2I7QFaDpOzBl24kacQx+e0b2V3e/h7HZWWKb8c/mWo2cA3NuGZXWqs= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=lu7omQCR; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="lu7omQCR" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A8A1AC4CEE3; Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:29:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1749986951; bh=G/+e21hifaP8bhyvW07D9vm1h5vZCD5r+TCtnsCQB9I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=lu7omQCRuu3H/9WR2H0tGuUpYwPXnMmEDTwdZ8nVfjLj9jKsMYJ+WlVg3gMS+dHsY S7fRAOtJ6o11LXFMxYg3X+yu+bnIZp/dJxvYQCKfAmYVhgWy4BAqXmNErOwJ+WERSa AmP8tavuqRMge++iCzatLJkJhbC8x/f/ul9R9CZy5dw4sm6jRC7hY8U9FZDj8TFf5z T6paCFzO3tHYqUmvCFPuihJKLGYeklZh6DxH7WaiUJ8jeAfO+BRS6nq8CsMkR8Mgs9 8eSmAq21Lt13ade8v7G5/4G0woYjRzrI5+6XpTvqRTILVew+09nXBKuhCxDWbahSnW pH8g03qt8g61Q== Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:29:06 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , Vitaly Kuznetsov , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Gro=DF?= , Andrew Morton , Ard Biesheuvel , Arnd Bergmann , David Woodhouse , Masahiro Yamada , Michal Marek , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular MM options in the defconfig Message-ID: References: <20250515132719.31868-1-mingo@kernel.org> <20250515132719.31868-10-mingo@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: * Ingo Molnar wrote: > That a 'stupid' or 'broken' kernel option is default-disabled in > practice has almost no relevance and doesn't help in filtering good > kernel options from bad ones: almost all new kernel options, even > useful ones we'd like distros to disable, are default-disabled, and ^--- enable > stay so even if all distributions end up enabling it. Thanks, Ingo