Re: [git pull] fastboot tree for v2.6.28

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Oct 11 2008 - 04:29:26 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:47:12 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > When i saw your patches then initially my impression was "oh my,
> > this will break a ton of stuff", so i asked you to: make it
> > default-off (against Andrew's suggestion to just remove the config
> > and make it a compulsory feature)
>
> hm, that must have been the other Andrew.

on 14th August you wrote:

|| Making it a config options seems a bad idea - it'll split our
|| testing/debugging space yet again. If this stuff works, then
|| everyone should be able to use it. If it doesn't work, well....

this i understood as: "if we take this stuff then it should be
always-on". [You didnt say whether we should take it though.]

> A feature like this I think should not have a config option but should
> be enabled by a boot option.
>
> We can waffle about the default setting of that option. Maybe turn it
> on for a few weeks and see what happens.

a config option is definitely useful for users and distros. Having the
boot option is a good idea. Arjan, i thought we had a fastboot=0/1 boot
option but i cannot find it - could you please add it?

Ingo
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