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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:34:10 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	John Kacur <jkacur@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change Kbuild message to match default

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:23:56AM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:34:14AM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:31 AM, jkacur <jkacur@...il.com> wrote:
> >> > Change the Kbuild "If unsure" message to match the default.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur at gmail dot com>
> >> >
> >> > Index: linux-2.6.26/init/Kconfig
> >> > ===================================================================
> >> > --- linux-2.6.26.orig/init/Kconfig
> >> > +++ linux-2.6.26/init/Kconfig
> >> > @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
> >> >          Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
> >> >          resulting in a smaller kernel.
> >> >
> >> > -         If unsure, say N.
> >> > +         If unsure, say Y.
> >> >
> >> >  config SYSCTL
> >> >        bool
> >> >
> >>
> >> This seems like a no-brainer to me that the default and the "If
> >> unsure" message should match, any reason you haven't picked-it up?
> >
> > Two reasons:
> >
> > 1) I have not started to look at new patches until now
> >
> >   And this is due to several reasons.
> >   First off I have been without internet for a while.
> >   And secondly I do try to avoid new patches during the
> >   merge window which does not fix merge issues.
> 
> Ok, no problem!
> 
> >
> > 2) I am not convinced that "default y" is really what we want.
> >   What does popular distroes use (aka what gets wide testing?).
> >
> 
> Hmnn, good point, in any case there is an inconsistency here. I can
> only speak for my laptop here running openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)
> 
> gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
> CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
> uname -a
> Linux linux-ipxk 2.6.25.11-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008-07-13 20:48:28
> +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks - I applied your patch.

	Sam

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