netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: make CONFIG_BQL actually end user configurable

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Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:11:21 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	therbert@...gle.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: make CONFIG_BQL actually end user configurable

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Mon,  5 Mar 2012 22:38:16 -0500

> While most people will have no reason to turn this off, the
> ability to do so can be useful for testing BQL support additions
> on previously BQL-unaware drivers and similar.

It's intentionally like this.

> The kconfig help text is largely taken from the original RFC
> patchset 0/N header sent to netdev@...r.kernel.org in fall 2011.

And this it why the final version that got checked in didn't
have the help text nor the user configurability.  I asked for
it to be this way.
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