Re: [PATCH] disable PREEMPT_BKL per default

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:45 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Do not enable this per default during make oldconfig.
> 'default $foo' should not be abused like that.

afaik that was done to increase testing.
This thing shouldn't be a config option at all in a final release imo;
the config option as I understand it is there to be able to disable it
during the testing phase in -mm to help diagnose otherwise unexplained
issues.

Maybe by now it's time to remove the config option..


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