From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934941AbXEHQTn (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 12:19:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934929AbXEHQTl (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 12:19:41 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:36773 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934442AbXEHQTk (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 12:19:40 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 99.246.112.70 Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 12:19:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1178612519.3042.294.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-36.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 8 May 2007, 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") > CONFIG_OBSOLETE > CONFIG_DEPRECATED > etc.? :) i hadn't actually considered *that* possibility, but the idea is sort of what i had in mind -- a clear, top-level setting that, in one swell foop, will change what's available throughout the tree. i think that's the most intuitively clear way to do it. rday p.s. mostly, i just don't think labelling that selection with the word "EMBEDDED" makes a lot of sense. who's to say that any given feature should be de-selectable only on an embedded system? -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================