Subject: Re: [2.1.121-pre1] Weird alpha defconfig?
To:	rth@cygnus.com
Date:	Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:29:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 11:35:07PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > I _hope_ this is an experimental change, designed to find things that
> > break before 2.2...  If this is a release candidate and not an
> > experiment, I respectfully request that the changes be backed out.

> It was partially accidental, but pardon my asking, why do you care?

The laziness factor and the correctness factor.  :)

*None* of the other architectures, including x86, enable many of the
options turned on in the latest Alpha defconfig.  Several options are
kernel-hacking-only options, or options that Configure.help recommends
be disabled.

IMHO it is not correct to enable many of these options in preparation
for the release of stable/production version 2.2.0.

As for laziness, it's a PITA to disable all those options when testing
from a fresh 'make mrproper'.

Why do I care?  I want to see Alpha arch be as solid, stable,
dependable, and correct as the x86 arch (if not more so <g>)

	Jeff