On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:39:14PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >> > bool "Enable the block layer" depends on EMBEDDED
> >>
> >> Please. no. CONFIG_EMBEDDED was a bad idea in the first place -- its
> >> sole purpose is to pander to Aunt Tillie.
> >
> >It's not for Aunt Tillie.
> >It's for an average system administrator who compiles his own kernel.
> >
> >CONFIG_BLOCK=n will only be for the "the kernel must become as fast as
> >possible, and I really know what I'm doing" people.
>
> Then that should be CONFIG_I_AM_AN_EXPERT (CONFIG_EXPERT), not
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
It makes sense that there is one option only for additional space
savings.
But you are right, we need a second option for not space related expert
options.
I'll send a patch for this.
> Jan Engelhardt
cu
Adrian
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