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

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Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 17:31:29 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
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 Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:17:19AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.

That only becomes a problem if the defconfigs are regularly touched.
If we do find that there's conflicts, I'll drop them.

Actually, I'll move them into separate commits now, so if a conflict
occurs it's just a case of removing the offending commit.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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