Re: [PATCH] powerpc/5200: Update defconfigs

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Stephen Neuendorffer
<stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com> wrote:
> It seems to me like what's confused in the defconfigs is two concepts:
> 1) The requirements of a platform (what options must be set and must not
> be set)
> 2) The guarantee that a particular config was known to work at some
> point in time.

I can't speak for other maintainers; but #2 is not something I worry
about w.r.t. defconfigs.  That guarantee is pretty meaningless for
anything but an exact version of the kernel tree.

> The first could allow you to drop 99% of the options (I think that this
> mainly what Linus objects to)

That, and the fact that the current files are machine-generated as
opposed to something written/edited/maintained by a human.

> The second is better handled with testing anyway (assuming that all of
> the unmentioned options are, in fact, unset)

Yup.

g.