From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932576Ab2GMV3g (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:29:36 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:62406 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755729Ab2GMV3f (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:29:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120713210240.GG1707@redhat.com> References: <20120713210240.GG1707@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:29:34 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: XME9tF69E_c0qa_x6qmAe2fsYQ4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ubuntu Kernel Team , Debian Kernel Team , OpenSUSE Kernel Team , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Fedora Kernel Team Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > I wish defconfig was actually something useful like this, instead of.. > what the hell is it exactly ? No-one even seems to agree, other than > "random selection of options, many of which were removed n years ago" It's just to difficult to update them in a sane way. I mean, I have my own set of defconfigs for all supported m68k-platforms, but getting them in sync and ready for submitting an update seems to be a multi-year project, and there are always more important (and more fun) things to do. So that's why I haven't gotten to updating them since the defconfig reduction. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds