linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm request 2

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Date:	Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:09:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
cc:	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 2

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It's still code. And if the user didn't ask for it, it should damn well 
> not be there.

And I repeat: unless the feature cures cancer, it's not on by default.

Sometimes we split up _old_ features as config options, or do things that 
are meant to be turned off only for embedded people. THEN we use that 
whole 'default y' thing, because doing a "make oldconfig" should give you 
the same configuration you had before. 

But if it's not an old feature that used to not have a config option at 
all, and it doesn't cure cancer, you never EVER do "default y".  Because 
when I do "make oldconfig", and I see a "Y" default, it makes me go "I'm 
not pulling that piece of sh*t".

		Linus
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