From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sanitize ACPI Kconfig Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:16:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20050117111602.GI29270@wotan.suse.de> References: <20050107212259.GA13026@wotan.suse.de> <20050117001150.GA1337@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050117001150.GA1337-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andi Kleen , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt