Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

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
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