linux-kernel - Re: default y idiocy

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Date:	Sat, 12 May 2007 21:45:10 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mchehab@...radead.org
Subject: Re: default y idiocy

On Sat, May 12 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On May 12 2007 21:27, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >On Sat, May 12 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> 
> >> On May 12 2007 20:23, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >This has bothered me for a long time, and it just seems to be getting
> >> >worse. Can people please STOP defaulting non-essential stuff to 'y'?
> >> >Grrr.
> >> 
> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/8/76
> >
> >Sorry, I don't buy that reason at all - it's a short term advantage,
> >causing long term pain. It's not what we have done in the past, don't
> >start doing crap like that now.
> 
> Right, I shall create some patches to revert that and send them off
> to Linus ASAP.

Thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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