Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

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At Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:26:57 -0800,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Grant Coady <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Alsa:
> > Why do I want these by default?
> > OSS PCM (digital audio) API - Include plugin system (SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
> > Verbose procfs contents (SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)
> 
> cc's added.

They became conditionals for reducing the size by making some
functionalities optional.  Thus defaulting to Y is safer.
Especially the former one would be needed for many motherboards to
work like former versions.  The latter is relatively harmless.  It's
for cutting some memory usage by procfs.

Maybe better to add CONFIG_EMBEDDED for these flags to avoid
confusion?


Takashi
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