Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Apr 02 2008 - 10:50:43 EST




On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> > I think the dirstat continues to be fairly informative, with arch/ and
> > drivers dominating as usual. And within arch, a fair amount of the line
> > noise are all those defconfigs. I wish we had some saner way of handling
> > that
>
> We (the arch maintainers) could try to do the bulk of the defconfig
> updates at about -rc2 or -rc3 time, if you'd prefer.

Well, that part isn't the one that I think is bothersome - I just wonder
if the whole "defconfig" mess is worth keeping with the kernel at _all_.

It also causes tons of noise whenever I happen to do something like "git
grep CONFIG_XYZZY" to see where some config variable is used etc.

So I was more wondering whether maybe there could be better ways of doing
that whole thing.

Linus
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