Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756199AbYAQIdK (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:33:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752323AbYAQIc6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:32:58 -0500 Received: from smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.213]:38353 "HELO smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750865AbYAQIc5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:32:57 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=p0Be23StD5xjeJORNMCpW+fTE7VautOCQea1cWM+dpe8sAHgagE2bNt/fHJGatJ7awMLCUASl6mAYZ/EuNZfRqyEdw6H2QQgb14U9jkwTDfJtrjZFZaVkWUkhOMg+G/JqICbfXuKIsupqVGwvIg9JG/uy08rpr+tgY7bcCJSOj4= ; X-YMail-OSG: 8.Tr6TMVM1n_I7V7pBtk9ObcH5zbh40ctI4IP.O5WT3P_zt_DLRSuqf.5ywzUoQtT3BJSsYPdg-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: 2.6.23-git Kconfig regression Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:32:54 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "Roman Zippel" , "lkml" , "Randy Dunlap" References: <20071020012245.9B3FB23A5F7@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> <200801161602.01557.david-b@pacbell.net> <478F1CDD.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> In-Reply-To: <478F1CDD.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801170032.54788.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 23 On Thursday 17 January 2008, Jan Beulich wrote: > >This stuff isn't for "distro" kernels; it's for embedded > >environments of the "only this hardware exists" sort. > >Space matters, and having small code matters. ?Nobody has > >been interested enough in an "embedded distro" model to > >provide patches enabling such stuff. > > Why not make the whole thing depend on EMBEDDED then? Because while its design center is small systems, there's actually no technical dependency there. The Kconfig for EMBEDDED also says it's for disabling or tweaking standard settings ... ergo, not *adding* subsystems or drivers. Oddly enough, most things that work on small systems can also be used on bigger ones. :) - Dave -- 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/