Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161239AbWBVBeO (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:34:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161237AbWBVBeO (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:34:14 -0500 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.50]:2187 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161239AbWBVBeM (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:34:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:34:11 +0100 From: Herbert Poetzl To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Samuel Masham , Jan Engelhardt , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make INPUT a bool Message-ID: <20060222013410.GH20204@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mail-Followup-To: Adrian Bunk , Samuel Masham , Jan Engelhardt , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Andrew Morton References: <20060214152218.GI10701@stusta.de> <20060214182238.GB3513@stusta.de> <20060217163802.GI4422@stusta.de> <93564eb70602191933x2a20ce0m@mail.gmail.com> <20060220132832.GF4971@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060220132832.GF4971@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1977 Lines: 61 On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:28:32PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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. well, I suggested the following (or a similar) change some time ago (unfortunately I could not find it in the lkml archives, so it might have been lost) http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/embedded_to_expert.txt best, Herbert > 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/ - 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/