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

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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:28:45 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 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.

on 14th August you wrote:

|| Making it a config options seems a bad idea - it'll split our 
|| testing/debugging space yet again.  If this stuff works, then 
|| everyone should be able to use it.  If it doesn't work, well....

this i understood as: "if we take this stuff then it should be 
always-on". [You didnt say whether we should take it though.]

> 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.

a config option is definitely useful for users and distros. Having the 
boot option is a good idea. Arjan, i thought we had a fastboot=0/1 boot 
option but i cannot find it - could you please add it?

	Ingo
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