Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422640AbWBVCbX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:31:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422647AbWBVCbW (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:31:22 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:64522 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422640AbWBVCbW (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:31:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:31:21 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: 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: <20060222023121.GB4661@stusta.de> References: <20060214152218.GI10701@stusta.de> <20060214182238.GB3513@stusta.de> <20060217163802.GI4422@stusta.de> <93564eb70602191933x2a20ce0m@mail.gmail.com> <20060220132832.GF4971@stusta.de> <20060222013410.GH20204@MAIL.13thfloor.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060222013410.GH20204@MAIL.13thfloor.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1934 Lines: 58 On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:34:11AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > 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 That's not a good solution since EMBEDDED is really only about additional space savings - even if you are an "expert", there's no reason to enable EMBEDDED when building a kernel for systems with > 50 MB RAM. The better solution is IMHO an additional option: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/7/93 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/7/139 > best, > Herbert 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/