linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG

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Message-Id: <20110208021916.68b33b37.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 8 Feb 2011 02:19:16 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG_PM from users

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 02:10:45 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:00:55 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >
> > $ git grep "CONFIG_PM is not set"
> > 7cf3d73b4360e91b14326632ab1aeda4cb26308d^ -- arch/ | wc -l
> > 256
> > $
> > 
> > 7cf3d73b4360e91b14326632ab1aeda4cb26308d is the commit that introduced
> > savedefconfig, so that's a safe revision with untrimmed defconfigs.
> 
> Yeah, but we can't tell if CONFIG_PM is turned off on purpose in those
> defconfigs, or just off because noone explicitly turned it on.

At least some of the powerpc defconfigs were added with CONFIG_PM
disabled.  I assume that was on purpose (though it may not have been).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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