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 ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
