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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:29:06 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	<mingo@...e.hu>, "Harvey Harrison" <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	<tglx@...utronix.de>, "Roman Zippel" <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Nick Piggin" <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: def_bool n

Could either of you clarify what the significance of such a construct
(encountered several times in arch/x86/Kconfig alone) is?

At first, I noticed it only with GENERIC_LOCKBREAK (it is my
understanding that this block can go away entirely), but then realized
that with the bool->def_bool conversion this was introduced in various
other places (where "default n" was used before, which seems as
pointless a statement). Am I missing something?

Thanks, Jan

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