linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] fastboot tree for v2.6.28

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Message-Id: <20081011004840.5ad62ce0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:48:40 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] fastboot tree for v2.6.28

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:47:12 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> When i saw your patches then initially my impression was "oh my, this 
> will break a ton of stuff", so i asked you to: make it default-off 
> (against Andrew's suggestion to just remove the config and make it a 
> compulsory feature)

hm, that must have been the other Andrew.

A feature like this I think should not have a config option but should
be enabled by a boot option.

We can waffle about the default setting of that option.  Maybe turn it
on for a few weeks and see what happens.

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