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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent users from disabling tickless
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:42:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101225164207.1dcd9e58@stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101221233942.GL1263@parisc-linux.org>

On Dec 21 Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> --- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
> @@ -5,13 +5,9 @@ config TICK_ONESHOT
>  	bool
>  
>  config NO_HZ
> -	bool "Tickless System (Dynamic Ticks)"
> +	def_bool y
>  	depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
>  	select TICK_ONESHOT
> -	help
> -	  This option enables a tickless system: timer interrupts will
> -	  only trigger on an as-needed basis both when the system is
> -	  busy and when the system is idle.
>  
>  config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
>  	bool "High Resolution Timer Support"
> 

Even at a kconfig variable without prompt, a help section may be useful.
In case of this one, you should rather add to the text than remove it.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==-=- ==-- ==--=
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-25 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21 23:39 [PATCH] Prevent users from disabling tickless Matthew Wilcox
2010-12-21 23:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-22  0:24   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-12-22  0:38     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-12-22 21:00 ` Frank Rowand
2010-12-22 21:34   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-12-22 22:32     ` Frank Rowand
2010-12-26 22:22   ` Len Brown
2010-12-26 23:20     ` Grant Coady
2010-12-26 23:23     ` Regarding kernel work queue issues Raj Kumar
2010-12-25 15:42 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2011-01-02  8:57 ` [PATCH] Prevent users from disabling tickless Pavel Machek
2011-01-02  9:15   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-02 10:59 ` Serge Belyshev
2011-01-02 11:06 ` Remy Bohmer

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