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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:59:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: change defconfig to NR_CPUS==1024
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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>, hawkes@sgi.com, Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>, Dan Higgins <djh@sgi.com>, John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>, Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>


> Vendors look for the upstream defaults and orient themselves on the 
> defconfig.

they do? That's news to me. I've worked at a vendor for almost 5 years,
3 1/2 years of which I was the person who decided on the configs (with
external input of course). In those 3 1/2 years I *never* looked at
defconfig. *never*. And I don't expect other vendor kernel owners to do
things differently; when a config option needs deciding you look at the
description and pick a good value. That's it. Defconfig doesn't matter.