linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/13] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular MM options in the defconfig

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Message-ID: <aE6ughh6UCgRPFqq@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:29:06 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
	Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular MM options in the
 defconfig


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:

>    That a 'stupid' or 'broken' kernel option is default-disabled in 
>    practice has almost no relevance and doesn't help in filtering good 
>    kernel options from bad ones: almost all new kernel options, even 
>    useful ones we'd like distros to disable, are default-disabled, and 
                                        ^--- enable
>    stay so even if all distributions end up enabling it.

Thanks,

	Ingo