From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: + misc-devices-do-not-enable-by-default.patch added to -mm tree Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:27:22 -0700 Message-ID: <201009232327.o8NNRMMS025599@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47237 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752254Ab0IWX2n (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:28:43 -0400 Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: bp@alien8.de, dilinger@collabora.co.uk, khali@linux-fr.org, michael.hennerich@analog.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, vapier@gentoo.org The patch titled misc devices: do not enable by default has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is misc-devices-do-not-enable-by-default.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: misc devices: do not enable by default From: Borislav Petkov Do not enable this Kconfig menu by default since it contains devices not present on the majority of systems. This is becoming a pain and a waste of time especially when doing a bunch of kernel builds on different systems daily and have to answer "make oldconfig" prompts for strange devices. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Cc: Michael Hennerich Cc: Andres Salomon Cc: Jean Delvare Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/misc/Kconfig~misc-devices-do-not-enable-by-default drivers/misc/Kconfig --- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig~misc-devices-do-not-enable-by-default +++ a/drivers/misc/Kconfig @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ menuconfig MISC_DEVICES bool "Misc devices" - default y ---help--- Say Y here to get to see options for device drivers from various different categories. This option alone does not add any kernel code. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bp@alien8.de are misc-devices-do-not-enable-by-default.patch