Re: [patch 5/5] mm: prompt slqb default for oldconfig

[Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:22:38AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Nick,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:50 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Hi Pekka,
> > > 
> > > Well there have been reasonably significant changes both for SLQB and
> > > SLUB that I thought it is better to wait one more round before merging
> > > SLQB. Also, SLQB may not have been getting as much testing as it could
> > > have in -next, due to oldconfig choosing existing config as the default.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Nick
> > > --
> > > 
> > > Change Kconfig names for slab allocator choices to prod SLQB into being
> > > the default. Hopefully increasing testing base.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> > 
> > I went ahead and applied this too. IIRC, Ingo had some ideas how 
> > this should be handled so lets CC him as well.
> 
> I forgot it all already :)

I think I roughly followed consensus. Basically just rename the choices
so oldconfig will default to Kconfig specified rather than the existing
.config choice. We can just revert this little shim eventually.
 

> Btw., i'm wondering, why didnt this make it into .30?

Well, there was a flurry of activity on SLUB, and also one relatively
significant change to SLQB, so in the interest of getting a more uptodate
comparison, I think it better to wait one more round.

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