From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Anand K Mistry <amistry@google.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Add a prompt for HPET_EMULATE_RTC
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 09:38:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl9se07w.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210429155950.v2.1.I2392cf11fb353d10459958100b69d93346fa167c@changeid>
On Thu, Apr 29 2021 at 16:00, Anand K. Mistry wrote:
> This does two things:
> 1. Makes the option visible in menuconfig, allowing the user to easily
> disable this option
> 2. Allows olddefconfig to respect the option if it is set in the old
> .config file
Well, it's pretty clear WHAT it does, but there is absolutely no
reasoning WHY this knob is needed in the first place.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-03 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-29 6:00 [PATCH v2] x86: Add a prompt for HPET_EMULATE_RTC Anand K Mistry
2021-05-03 7:38 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2021-05-04 1:21 ` Anand K. Mistry
2021-05-04 7:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-03-02 20:37 ` Raul E Rangel
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