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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:40:19 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm3: no help text for READAHEAD_ALLOW_OVERHEADS
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:43:37PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 01:52:11AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >...
> > > Changes since 2.6.17-mm2:
> > > +readahead-kconfig-option-readahead_allow_overheads.patch
> > >...
> > >  readahead updates
> > >...
> > 
> > The READAHEAD_ALLOW_OVERHEADS option lacks a help text.
> 
> Oh, it just acts as a submenu and a reminder ;)
> 
> > Additionally, the "default n" is pointless and should be removed.
> 
> I expect the _extra_ features are useless for normal users.
> Your reasoning or feeling?
>...

That's not my point, my point is that if you remove the "default n" 
line, nothing changes. The default is still "n", but it's better 
readable.

> Wu

cu
Adrian

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