Re: [PATCH] plugsched - update Kconfig-1

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:10, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > Con Kolivas wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:22, Peter Williams wrote:
> > >
> > > > Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:34, Peter Williams wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > 1. Make the ability to select which schedulers are built in independent
> > > > > > of EMBEDDED.
> > > > > > 2. Only offer builtin schedulers as choice for the default scheduler.
> > > > > > 3. Only build in ingosched if PLUGSCHED is not configured.
> > > > >
> > > > > I disagree with 3. Surely people might want to build in only one
> > > > > scheduler that is not ingosched without other choices.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, and they would be able to do that by selecting PLUGSCHED and then
> > > > selecting only the scheduler that they want.  But this then leads to the
> > > > observation that PLUGSCHED is probably makes things unnecessarily
> > > > complex and all that is required is a means to select the schedulers to
> > > > be built in and a choice of default (much like for the IO schedulers)?
> > >
> > > Indeed it may be better to remove the "plugsched" option entirely. Once
> > > patched in it's not like you are building the kernel without the
> > > plugsched infrastructure. Provided each extra scheduler does not increase
> > > the kernel size too much (and a test build with/without all schedulers
> > > should tell you that), it may be best to just have the scheduler choice
> > > in the top menu and only expose the "schedulers to build in" under
> > > embedded.
> >
> > I can't see why this should be restricted to embedded systems?
>
>
> It's just convention that size options go in there; it's not really just for 
> embedded systems.

OK.  I guess I'm sometimes guilty of taking things too literally :-(

I'll read up on Kconfig again before I make any changes.

Thanks
Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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