linux-kernel - Re: Remove last reminants of dyntick support

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Message-ID: <20080511221719.GO1645@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 01:17:19 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	LAK <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Remove last reminants of dyntick support

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:56:00PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> From: Russell King <rmk@...-67.arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Neither S390 nor SH have the configuration option for NO_IDLE_HZ
> in their Kconfig files, yet their defconfig files lists them.
> Remove those references.
>...

I'm not a fan of touching defconfig files this way - this easily leads 
to patch conflicts without any real advantage.

Either a defconfig gets updated and will get this update automatically, 
or it's anyway so full of old stuff that one option more or less doesn't 
make a difference.

cu
Adrian

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