linux-kernel - Re: Regarding the linkstation defconfig

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Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:23:12 -0300
From:	Rogério Brito <rbrito@....usp.br>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>
Cc:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: Regarding the linkstation defconfig

Dear Guennadi, and Kumar.

On Apr 24 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Guennadi, since you seem to be the one responsible for the
> > linkstation/kurobox in the kernel,
> 
> That's not howI interpret my role in linkstation development /
> support.

Sorry. I thought that you were. I have, nonetheless, interest in helping
and understanding more about the platform.

> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >  01. why is anticipatory the default scheduler for linkstations when CFQ
> >      is the default scheduler for the rest of the kernel?
(...)
> >  12. wouldn't it be a good thing to enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME?
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> As I already replied to you earlier, I am not particularly interested in 
> fine-tuning and optimisation of defconfigs. IMHO *_defconfigs are only 
> examples of board configuration, that are known to build and work. The 
> rest is up to the user / packager.

IMVHO, defconfigs should be examples of board configuration, known to
build and work (like you said) *and* be, in a way, exemplary to the
user/packager.

> > Again, please, forgive my ignorance here regarding the questions above.
> > I'm really looking for some clarification and to get things in shape
> > both on my systems and in the default kernel configuration, in general.
> 
> Feel free to submit patches with reasoning to the powerpc ML and 
> respective maintainer as per MAINTAINERS file.

I'm doing that as a reply to this message.


Thanks for your guiding, Rogério Brito.

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