Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030221AbXBFWwZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:52:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030228AbXBFWwY (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:52:24 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:54248 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030221AbXBFWwY (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:52:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:51:52 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Haavard Skinnemoen cc: Matt Mackall , David Woodhouse , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error In-Reply-To: <1defaf580702061439w5eca87e6s8d152fdec5f8c627@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: 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> <20070206054612.GL16722@waste.org> <1defaf580702061439w5eca87e6s8d152fdec5f8c627@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1242 Lines: 29 On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > > I disagree. I did the exact same thing on AVR32 because !EMBEDDED > forces on tons of crap that just isn't useful on many embedded > platforms. I do agree. EMBEDDED largely means "non-generic/non-standard" these days. It's also true that EMBEDDED does *not* necessarily mean "small", since some of the choices that it disables can often be choices that you want on *big* machines. For example, the whole thing where VGA and keyboard/mouse support default to on when EMBEDDED isn't selected is quite possibly a good reason to enable EMBEDDED on big servers that aren't even meant to be general- purpose, but simply optimized for a particular environment. That is, technically, what "embedded" really means. A lot of the time people talk about it as if it was always "small", but it can be a big computer that is just used in a very specific turn-key environment where some of the default kernel choices may not be sensible. Linus - 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/