On Wednesday 11 January 2012, David Rientjes wrote: > We discussed this when the patch was made to change EMBEDDED to EXPERT and > we knew that things like CONFIG_SLOB exist that would only make sense on a > platform with a very small memory footprint. So what criteria are you > using to determine what makes sense for EMBEDDED or not and what would be > generally useful for platforms with very small memory footprints? > > I would think that something like CONFIG_SMALLMEM would identify those > candidates (for things like SLOB) and then you could separate the rest > based on the platform they exist for since you're essentially introducing > a new config symbol here that existed in the past but are now using it > with different semantics. The CONFIG_SMALLMEM would also require people to know what they are doing, beyond what we expect the average person building a kernel to, which is just what CONFIG_EXPERT means, and the same reason why we ended up renaming CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT. People have a very different understanding of what "embedded" actually means, and not all of those require small memory footprint or even a custom kernel. Let's just stay with CONFIG_EXPERT. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
