Regarding the linkstation defconfig
Rogério Brito
rbrito at ime.usp.br
Fri Apr 24 17:23:12 EDT 2009
Dear Guennadi, and Kumar.
On Apr 24 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Guennadi, since you seem to be the one responsible for the
> > linkstation/kurobox in the kernel,
>
> That's not howI interpret my role in linkstation development /
> support.
Sorry. I thought that you were. I have, nonetheless, interest in helping
and understanding more about the platform.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > 01. why is anticipatory the default scheduler for linkstations when CFQ
> > is the default scheduler for the rest of the kernel?
(...)
> > 12. wouldn't it be a good thing to enable CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME?
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> As I already replied to you earlier, I am not particularly interested in
> fine-tuning and optimisation of defconfigs. IMHO *_defconfigs are only
> examples of board configuration, that are known to build and work. The
> rest is up to the user / packager.
IMVHO, defconfigs should be examples of board configuration, known to
build and work (like you said) *and* be, in a way, exemplary to the
user/packager.
> > Again, please, forgive my ignorance here regarding the questions above.
> > I'm really looking for some clarification and to get things in shape
> > both on my systems and in the default kernel configuration, in general.
>
> Feel free to submit patches with reasoning to the powerpc ML and
> respective maintainer as per MAINTAINERS file.
I'm doing that as a reply to this message.
Thanks for your guiding, Rogério Brito.
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