new applet: devmem
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 27 06:00:06 UTC 2008
On Sunday 26 October 2008 23:28, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 26 October 2008 08:26:29 Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > +config DEVMEM
> > > + bool "devmem"
> > > + default y
> >
> > Why default y? This is no generic tool.
>
> When did defconfig stop being the maximum sane configuration, by the way? I
> suspect there was a policy shift, I just didn't see the announcement...
IIRC "make defconfig" doesn't use "default" values from Config.in
files, it just takes scripts/defconfig as .config
In Config.in, all applets default to n.
> Can of worms. I avoided even _trying_ to make any judgement calls about what
> people would and wouldn't want...
I agree. Whoever doesn't like defconfig is free to select their own .config.
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