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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:11:26 -0800 From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com> To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> CC: therbert@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: make CONFIG_BQL actually end user configurable On 3/5/2012 7:38 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Without the defining string or help text, LKC won't ever bother > to ask the end user for a setting for CONFIG_BQL -- you could > delete it from your .config and run make oldconfig and not a > thing would change -- it would still be silently re-enabled. > > 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. > > The kconfig help text is largely taken from the original RFC > patchset 0/N header sent to netdev@...r.kernel.org in fall 2011. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> > --- > > [Apologies if this was explicitly blocked for a reason; I couldn't > find a reason after searching netdev or threads at bufferbloat.net ] > It was intentional "The Kconfig entry and option is merely for expressing internal dependencies,". See the comments in the patch http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/128727/ And corresponding mail, http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2011/12/01/130 .John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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