Re: [PATCH] disable PREEMPT_BKL per default

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 03:48:52 EST


On Tue, Oct 18, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 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.

CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is already in Linus tree.
Its disabled in our configs.

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