From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 15:03:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4640750B.4040801@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705081117051.17280@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 8:06 Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-08 8:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-08 8:27 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-08 8:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-08 8:41 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-08 9:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-08 13:03 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-05-08 16:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-08 20:22 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-08 8:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-08 16:14 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-05-08 20:10 ` Matt Mackall
2007-05-08 20:34 ` Robert P. J. Day
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