linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

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Message-ID: <5000AA38.5010508@am.sony.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:07:36 -0700
From:	Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...sony.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com>,
	Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
	OpenSUSE Kernel Team <opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@...oraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

On 07/13/12 14:55, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 
>  > But just removing all the certainly unused macros probably wouldn't have
>  > made a noticeable difference to anyone using those defconfig files
>  > anyway.
> 
> My point is that I don't think there's many people actually using them.
> (maybe more on the niche platforms, but x86[64] ? I'm sceptical they're used at all)

I'm one of those people who use default configs.  I build a given kernel version for
many different embedded boards and expect the default config to work for them.  It
makes life much easier.

I also share Linus' pain when building for my host x86 system and try to
remove the cruft from my distro config.

-Frank

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