Re: [PATCH -tip] Convert CONFIG_SMP=y powerpc defconfigs to TREE_RCU.

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:49:04AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:37:59PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > I'd suggest you dont do these dozens of defconfig updates at all - 
> > > arch maintainers can do this themselves, once the core kernel 
> > > default has been flipped.
> > 
> > AFAIK they don't. There's no make updatemyconfigwithdefaultstatementsconfig
> 
> My guess is that I would in fact have to send a few patches.  But I
> suppose that the real question is "how long should we wait to drop
> Classic RCU once the last arch has changed its defconfig?"  I have
> been assuming that we would wait one release cycle.

I don't think you have to wait, stale entries in defconfigs happen
all the time and Kconfig just asks then.

-Andi
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