Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934632AbXEHI1t (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 04:27:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754090AbXEHI1s (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 04:27:48 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:40435 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754068AbXEHI1r (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 04:27:47 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.196 Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 04:27:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Thomas Gleixner cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu. In-Reply-To: <1178612519.3042.294.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1178612519.3042.294.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.723, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00, TW_GL 0.08) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1709 Lines: 45 On Tue, 8 May 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup": > > Good reason to break everything which depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. > > tglx > > > -menuconfig EMBEDDED > > - bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" i don't know what you're getting at here. are you saying this is a bad idea because it will make a mess of the current usage of CONFIG_EMBEDDED in the source tree? $ grep -rw CONFIG_EMBEDDED * ... lots of irrelevant defconfig output deleted ... drivers/pci/setup-res.c:#ifdef CONFIG_EMBEDDED include/linux/ide.h:#if !defined(MAX_HWIFS) || defined(CONFIG_EMBEDDED) $ i don't see a whole lot of impact here. more to the point, though, the word "EMBEDDED" in this context is just wrong. people might have *other* reasons to de-activate some of those features rather than just for an embedded system. granted, that's probably where it will *mostly* happen, but i prefer the idea of labelling those selections for what they really are -- for *saving* *space*, because that's exactly what they represent. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - 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/