any reason why sandbox (and other defconfigs) don't enable MAGICVAR?

any reason why sandbox (and other defconfigs) don't enable MAGICVAR?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  was playing with a sandbox build and noticed that the default
sandbox config doesn't select MAGICVAR -- any reason why not? on a
larger scale, it seems odd that quite a number of defconfigs select
MAGICVAR (and MAGICVAR_HELP), while others don't.

  is this a per-machine selection? it just seems that it should be
more consistent -- that fundamental features like MAGICVAR should
either be all on or all off by default. thoughts?

rday

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Re: any reason why sandbox (and other defconfigs) don't enable MAGICVAR?

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 02:52:37PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   was playing with a sandbox build and noticed that the default
> sandbox config doesn't select MAGICVAR -- any reason why not? on a
> larger scale, it seems odd that quite a number of defconfigs select
> MAGICVAR (and MAGICVAR_HELP), while others don't.
> 
>   is this a per-machine selection? it just seems that it should be
> more consistent -- that fundamental features like MAGICVAR should
> either be all on or all off by default. thoughts?

Normally when a new feature is introduced it is by default disabled
so existing configs do not grow unnecessarily in size. This means the
configs do not have the feature until somebody overhauls a config file.
So, patches welcome.

Sascha

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