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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