Re: [2.6 patch] make INPUT a bool

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:33:55PM +0900, Samuel Masham wrote:

> Hi Adrian,

Hi Samuel,

> > And I've already given numbers why CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y and
> > CONFIG_MODULES=y at the same time is insane.
> 
> >From your numbers this sounds true ... but actually you might want the
> modules to delay the init of the various hardware bits...
> 
> Sometime boot-time is king and you just try and get back as much of
> the size costs as it takes...

this is irrelevant since CONFIG_INPUT alone does not init any hardware.

> I think for EMBEDDED and MODULES is actually a very common case ... if
> somewhat odd.

You are misunderstanding EMBEDDED.

It does _not_ mean "this is an embedded device".
It does mean "offer additional options for additional space savings".

For an embedded system with relaxed space limits, EMBEDDED=n is the 
right choice.

> Samuel

cu
Adrian

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