On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> I'm just curious why the Dell firmware configuration options are default
> to "m" instead of "n". Since it only matters if you have a Dell System.
>
> So for the huge number of systems that are not Dell Systems, they are
> probably wasting CPU cycles compiling these as modules, and taking up
> space in loads of /lib/modules directories throughout the world ;-)
>
> DCDBAS explicitly states default of "m", and DELL_RBU has no default which
> just makes it automatically on.
>
> Is there any reason that these shouldn't be turned off by default?
Agreed, and there's already been a patch to do that.
It's probably sitting in -mm... (just guessing), but could
easily move upward IMO.
--
~Randy
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