On Thu, Aug 24, 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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 think the sole purpose of CONFIG_EMBEDDED is to reduce noise from silly pseudo-bug reports. The rather uninteresting name helps. If you have CONFIG_EXPERT, of course _everone_ will enable it, shoot themselves in the foot and will be happy to inform you about it, wasting their and _your_ time. Johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
