linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm request 2

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Date:	Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:06:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
cc:	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm request 2



On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> because it does nothing on anything except the laptops in question and on 
> those it does nothing except add a control file in debugfs?

It's still code. And if the user didn't ask for it, it should damn well 
not be there.

> So how am I supposed to indicate to distro vendors that something should 
> be turned on? If you think that distro kernel maintainers really 
> understand every config option that goes past, I've got a bridge.

User configurations is _not_ your job. Your job is to make sure that the 
kernel works, and people who don't ask for new feaures don't get them.

		Linus
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