Re: [GIT PULL] Additional MM updates for 6.16-rc1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jun 10 2025 - 11:54:39 EST


On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:05:40 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andrew et al,
>
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 at 17:55, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > - The 2 patch series "mm/damon: build-enable essential DAMON components
> > by default" from SeongJae Park reworks DAMON Kconfig to make it easier
> > to enable CONFIG_DAMON.
>
> ... or, make it harder to disable it?
>
> Given no single defconfig file in v6.15 enables CONFIG_DAMON, I find
> it hard to believe defaulting DAMON to "y" is the right thing to do...
> (Yes, I have read the rationale in commit 28615e6eed152f2f
> ("mm/damon/Kconfig: enable CONFIG_DAMON by default")).
>

So what do you recommend? Editing all the defconfigs seems a bit lame.