Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965360AbXBFF7K (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:59:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965361AbXBFF7K (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:59:10 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:38259 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965360AbXBFF7J (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:59:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:46:12 -0600 From: Matt Mackall To: David Woodhouse Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error Message-ID: <20070206054612.GL16722@waste.org> References: <20070205084523.GA21858@elte.hu> <1170682488.29759.795.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070205155627.GA8354@elte.hu> <1170692539.29759.856.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070205162635.GA755@elte.hu> <20070205163152.GA2464@elte.hu> <1170710272.29759.894.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1170710272.29759.894.camel@pmac.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1476 Lines: 37 On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:17:52PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:58 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > More importantly, some things that *are* visible probably shouldn't be, or > > should perhaps only be in expert mode (aka "EMBEDDED"). > > I've heard some fairly stupid abuse of the term 'embedded' in my time, > but rarely have I heard people daft enough to abuse it to mean 'expert'. > But yes, that's what we use CONFIG_EMBEDDED for. I'd be happy to turn this into CONFIG_NONSTANDARD or CONFIG_EXPERT, which is how I described it in the Kconfig help texts: menuconfig EMBEDDED bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" help This option allows certain base kernel options and settings to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. Only use this if you really know what you are doing. A number of current users are indeed bogus. Stuff like: config SUPERH bool default y select EMBEDDED Just because you're using a SuperH board doesn't mean you want to turn off standard features. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - 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/