Re: [git pull] drm request 2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> because it does nothing on anything except the laptops in question and on 
> those it does nothing except add a control file in debugfs?

It's still code. And if the user didn't ask for it, it should damn well 
not be there.

> So how am I supposed to indicate to distro vendors that something should 
> be turned on? If you think that distro kernel maintainers really 
> understand every config option that goes past, I've got a bridge.

User configurations is _not_ your job. Your job is to make sure that the 
kernel works, and people who don't ask for new feaures don't get them.

		Linus
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