Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 02:22:23 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Andrea Barisani <lcars@infis.univ.trieste.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.0, wrong Kconfig directives
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:59:54PM +0100, Andrea Barisani wrote:
> Hi!

Hi Andrea!

>...
> And I really think that MOUSEDEV should not be considered a 'not-standard'
> option. It's quite common disabling MOUSE support on servers, terminals and
> so on. :)

If the only effect of an unnecessaryly enabled option are a few kB 
wasted space, this isn't a big problem in most situations.

If it's easy to accidentially disable an important option, it's good to 
protect users against doing so.

People who _really_ need the space simply enable EMBEDDED to disable 
such an option.

> Bye and thanks

cu
Adrian

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