From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] is Kconfig a bit hard sometimes?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:28:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzmjA1gkaVwr5J7UoW2Ovgsqr3aJJC_18Wv59QWp94+wA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170710173335.4ksnso6dzaekoxz4@piout.net>
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>
> I know the yes trick works for kernels older than 3.7 but maybe people
> should start using make olddefconfig ;)
Honestly, I wish more people just ran "oldconfig" and then started
complaining about people adding insane Kconfig options.
I seem to be the only one ever pushing back against some of the people
out there that add Kconfig options that really make zero sense (or
that add the oddest drivers or features with a crazy "default this
thing to on").
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-10 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-27 13:58 Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-06-27 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-27 18:44 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-27 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-27 20:53 ` Kees Cook
2017-06-27 21:16 ` Olof Johansson
2017-06-27 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-27 23:10 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2017-06-28 0:09 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-28 0:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-28 0:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-06-28 3:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
[not found] ` <CAFhKne-o0S8fMo_XD_aUk2Rf7VbDhgO+PT_bjnM-9WpKfnWBvw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAFhKne8FE=17wNdp=Svf2Z2tADok6htfYqTABEiZUrCOyeMaYg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-28 13:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-06-28 17:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-06-29 10:02 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-06-28 0:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-29 10:23 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-06-28 12:58 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-06-30 17:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-06-30 17:52 ` Darren Hart
2017-06-30 17:58 ` Darren Hart
2017-07-01 17:24 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-06-27 20:41 ` Kees Cook
2017-07-06 14:40 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-06 14:41 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 1/2] kconfig: add a silent option to conf_write() Dan Carpenter
2017-07-06 15:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-07-06 14:42 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH 2/2] kconfig: new command line kernel configuration tool Dan Carpenter
2017-07-07 5:55 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-07-07 9:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-09 3:56 ` Linus Walleij
2017-07-09 8:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-07-09 17:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-07-09 19:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-07-09 17:32 ` Frank Rowand
2017-07-10 9:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-07-10 11:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-06 16:41 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] is Kconfig a bit hard sometimes? Linus Torvalds
2017-07-06 17:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-07-07 11:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-07-10 17:15 ` Luck, Tony
2017-07-10 17:33 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-07-10 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-07-10 19:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2017-07-11 6:21 ` Valentin Rothberg
2017-07-06 21:19 ` Laurent Pinchart
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