Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030210AbWBTN2g (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:28:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030211AbWBTN2g (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:28:36 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:15367 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030210AbWBTN2f (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:28:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:28:32 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Samuel Masham Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make INPUT a bool Message-ID: <20060220132832.GF4971@stusta.de> References: <20060214152218.GI10701@stusta.de> <20060214182238.GB3513@stusta.de> <20060217163802.GI4422@stusta.de> <93564eb70602191933x2a20ce0m@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <93564eb70602191933x2a20ce0m@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1357 Lines: 45 On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:33:55PM +0900, Samuel Masham wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi Samuel, > > And I've already given numbers why CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y and > > CONFIG_MODULES=y at the same time is insane. > > >From your numbers this sounds true ... but actually you might want the > modules to delay the init of the various hardware bits... > > Sometime boot-time is king and you just try and get back as much of > the size costs as it takes... this is irrelevant since CONFIG_INPUT alone does not init any hardware. > I think for EMBEDDED and MODULES is actually a very common case ... if > somewhat odd. You are misunderstanding EMBEDDED. It does _not_ mean "this is an embedded device". It does mean "offer additional options for additional space savings". For an embedded system with relaxed space limits, EMBEDDED=n is the right choice. > Samuel cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/