linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804020748100.14670@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:50:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc8



On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
> 
> > I think the dirstat continues to be fairly informative, with arch/ and 
> > drivers dominating as usual. And within arch, a fair amount of the line 
> > noise are all those defconfigs. I wish we had some saner way of handling 
> > that
> 
> We (the arch maintainers) could try to do the bulk of the defconfig
> updates at about -rc2 or -rc3 time, if you'd prefer.

Well, that part isn't the one that I think is bothersome - I just wonder 
if the whole "defconfig" mess is worth keeping with the kernel at _all_.

It also causes tons of noise whenever I happen to do something like "git 
grep CONFIG_XYZZY" to see where some config variable is used etc.

So I was more wondering whether maybe there could be better ways of doing 
that whole thing. 

		Linus
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