linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] printk: Add monotonic, boottime, and realtime timestamps

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Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2017 16:06:09 -0400
From:   Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
To:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Christoffer Dall <cdall@...aro.org>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] printk: Add monotonic, boottime, and realtime
 timestamps



On 08/07/2017 02:47 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On 08/07/2017 12:52 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>>> Still not quite following why you're updating all the defconfigs. I'd
>>> make sure the Kconfig default settings are right, and leave updating
>>> the defconfig to arch/device maintainers. It adds a lot of noise to
>>> the patch.
>>
>> Hmm ... I thought it was up to the patch submitter to make sure that
>> 'make defconfig' still worked?  Are you sure I can leave that broken?
>>
>> /me *really* doesn't want to get yelled at by every arch maintainer.
> 
> No. Don't break systems, but at the same time, can't you use the
> default value in Kconfig to set it properly so the old defconfig
> settings don't really matter?
> 
> Apologies if I've not followed the issue properly, but it is odd, as
> I'm not sure I can think of a patch I've seen before that had so much
> defconfig noise in it.  Again, I've not looked into it closely, so it
> may just be my own ignorance, but it makes me suspect there is a
> better way.
> 

peterz?  Want to offer a suggestion?  The issue is that I'm changing a bool
config option to an int and that impacts all the arch's defconfigs.  John points
out that this is a lot of churn and we're both wondering if there's a better way
to do the configs.

P.