From: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, nacc@us.ibm.com,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Update defconfigs for CONFIG_HUGETLB
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:12:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213380728.15016.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080612193638.GB17231@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 22:36 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:55:45PM -0400, Adam Litke wrote:
> > Update all defconfigs that specify a default configuration for hugetlbfs.
> > There is now only one option: CONFIG_HUGETLB. Replace the old
> > CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE and CONFIG_HUGETLBFS options with the new one. I found no
> > cases where CONFIG_HUGETLBFS and CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE had different values so
> > this patch is large but completely mechanical:
> >...
> > 335 files changed, 335 insertions(+), 385 deletions(-)
> >...
>
> Please don't do this kind of patches - it doesn't bring any advantage
> but can create tons of patch conflicts.
>
> The next time a defconfig gets updated it will anyway automatically be
> fixed, and for defconfigs that aren't updated it doesn't create any
> problems to keep them as they are today until they might one day get
> updated.
Thanks for taking a look. I am not sure if I have ever seen a defconfig
patch hit the mailing list before and I was wondering how those changes
happen. In any case I am perfectly happy to drop this huge patch and
stick with just the first one.
--
Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-13 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-12 18:49 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Merge HUGETLB_PAGE and HUGETLBFS Kconfig options Adam Litke
2008-06-12 18:53 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] Merge options into CONFIG_HUGETLB Adam Litke
2008-06-12 18:55 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] Update defconfigs for CONFIG_HUGETLB Adam Litke
2008-06-12 19:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-13 18:12 ` Adam Litke [this message]
2008-06-13 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Merge HUGETLB_PAGE and HUGETLBFS Kconfig options Ralf Baechle
2008-06-13 14:03 ` Adam Litke
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