Re: [PATCH] Sanitize ACPI Kconfig

[Andi Kleen <ak-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:11:50AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Sanitize ACPI Kconfig. No other subsystem uses default m for all its
> > options and surely there is no need to do this for the more obscure
> > modules. When you do make oldconfig with an old option and just press
> > return you tend to get a lot of modules you don't want with this. 
> > Normally new stuff is off by default.
> 
> I'd say that AC adapter, battery, button and fan should be on by
> default. You set thermal zone to on by default, but thermal zone
> without fan seems like bad idea (not totally useless, but you usually
> want fans for thermal managment). Everybody uses battery (actually it
> seems to be single most important feature). And AC adapter is

For a rather small value of "everybody".

> neccessary if you want to go 2GHz with your athlon64 laptop (or it is
> 800MHz), so I'd say enable it.

My desktop boxes and servers all don't care about battery or AC.

But I'm not opposed to turning it on, just the "m" default is quite useless.

-Andi



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