From: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
To: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@redhat.com>,
Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/flex_array: make build optional
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:44:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545BEBD6.4030803@sr71.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545BE927.9060208@sr71.net>
On 11/06/2014 01:33 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/06/2014 01:27 PM, Aristeu Rozanski wrote:
>> +config FLEX_ARRAY
>> + bool "Flexible array"
>> + default n
>> + help
>> + This option enables an implementation of flexible arrays which
>> + allows creating arrays of fixed size elements with an arbritrary
>> + size without requiring the single allocation of a contiguous area.
>> +
>> + See Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt
>
> Is there any reason to expose this to the user via Kconfig?
>
> No sane person would even turn it on if they don't need it.
IOW, I think you should just make it:
config FLEX_ARRAY
def_bool n
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-06 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-06 21:27 Aristeu Rozanski
2014-11-06 21:33 ` Dave Hansen
2014-11-06 21:44 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-11-06 21:50 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2014-11-07 3:31 ` Josh Triplett
2014-11-07 10:18 ` David Rientjes
2014-11-06 21:58 ` josh
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