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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 17:54, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:05:40 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.

Just revert the commit?
Distros are (usually) not using defconfig files anyway.
Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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