Re: [PATCH] block: remove CONFIG_LBDAF

[Jens Axboe]

On 4/5/19 10:08 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently support for 64-bit sector_t and blkcnt_t is optional on 32-bit
> architectures.  These types are required to support block device and/or
> file sizes larger than 2 TiB, and have generally defaulted to on for
> a long time.  Enabling the option only increases the i386 tinyconfig
> size by 145 bytes, and many data structures already always use
> 64-bit values for their in-core and on-disk data structures anyway,
> so there should not be a large change in dynamic memory usage either.
> 
> Dropping this option removes a somewhat weird non-default config that
> has cause various bugs or compiler warnings when actually used.

I'm greatly in favor of this - but can we drop the defconfig changes?
Not strictly needed, it's not like they will cause issues with the
symbol still being there.

-- 
Jens Axboe