On 07/13/12 14:55, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 
>  > But just removing all the certainly unused macros probably wouldn't have
>  > made a noticeable difference to anyone using those defconfig files
>  > anyway.
> 
> My point is that I don't think there's many people actually using them.
> (maybe more on the niche platforms, but x86[64] ? I'm sceptical they're used 
> at all)

I'm one of those people who use default configs.  I build a given kernel 
version for
many different embedded boards and expect the default config to work for them.  
It
makes life much easier.

I also share Linus' pain when building for my host x86 system and try to
remove the cruft from my distro config.

-Frank

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