linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Change Kbuild message to match default

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:23:56 +0200
From:	"John Kacur" <jkacur@...il.com>
To:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change Kbuild message to match default

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:34:14AM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:31 AM, jkacur <jkacur@...il.com> wrote:
>> > Change the Kbuild "If unsure" message to match the default.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur at gmail dot com>
>> >
>> > Index: linux-2.6.26/init/Kconfig
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- linux-2.6.26.orig/init/Kconfig
>> > +++ linux-2.6.26/init/Kconfig
>> > @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
>> >          Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
>> >          resulting in a smaller kernel.
>> >
>> > -         If unsure, say N.
>> > +         If unsure, say Y.
>> >
>> >  config SYSCTL
>> >        bool
>> >
>>
>> This seems like a no-brainer to me that the default and the "If
>> unsure" message should match, any reason you haven't picked-it up?
>
> Two reasons:
>
> 1) I have not started to look at new patches until now
>
>   And this is due to several reasons.
>   First off I have been without internet for a while.
>   And secondly I do try to avoid new patches during the
>   merge window which does not fix merge issues.

Ok, no problem!

>
> 2) I am not convinced that "default y" is really what we want.
>   What does popular distroes use (aka what gets wide testing?).
>

Hmnn, good point, in any case there is an inconsistency here. I can
only speak for my laptop here running openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64)

gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
uname -a
Linux linux-ipxk 2.6.25.11-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008-07-13 20:48:28
+0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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