Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967473AbXEHNEM (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 09:04:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967206AbXEHNEK (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 09:04:10 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:57654 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967391AbXEHNEI (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 09:04:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4640750B.4040801@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 15:03:07 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: "Robert P. J. Day" , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu. References: <1178612519.3042.294.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 32 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On May 8 2007 04:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> in my opinion, the config option "EMBEDDED" is just plain silly. as >>i mentioned earlier, there may be other reasons that people want to >>de-activate normally selected features rather than just for strictly >>embedded systems. > > Did not you want to make a patch row that expresses all your ideas, aka > CONFIG_EXPERT > CONFIG_ASKFORDETAILS (former CONFIG_EMBEDDED, e.g. "place in memory where > kernel is loaded") Some of this might be better left to GUIs or HOWTOs. > CONFIG_OBSOLETE > CONFIG_DEPRECATED > etc.? :) > > > > Jan -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/