defconfig removal question

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Mon Feb 13 17:54:47 UTC 2006


On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:04:26AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>On Saturday 11 February 2006 14:19, Bernhard Fischer wrote:

>> Please consider moving CONFIG_DEBUG_YANK_SUSv2 back to the "Build
>> settings" where it is easier to find and also rename it to
>> CONFIG_MISFEATURE_SUSv2 so we can disable it easily.
>
>You obviously feel more strongly about it than I do, so if you really want it 
>out of the debug menu I won't stand in the way.  (However, be aware that 
>enabling this symbol _disables_ functionality, which is inverted from the 
>normal meaning of config symbols.)
>
>Another question is, viewing "make defconfig" as "maximum sane 
>config" (perhaps I should have added a "make maxconfig" and left defconfig 
>alone, but the old defconfig was essentially random), then do you want to 
>allow people to use the deprecated features?  Or do they count as "enable it 
>by hand if you really want this"?  (If they have to enable it by hand, most 
>users will never even notice that the option is there.)

I'd prefer to disable it per default but not remove the code too soon so
people who desparately need it can enable it by hand.




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