Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:11:46 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Allow to disable shmem.o |
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On 8 Aug 2004, Andi Kleen wrote: > i suspect the standard functionality is already covered by CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
It would still be appropriate to say what functionality is lost by configuring out, rather than leaving everyone to guess.
> > You're completely changing the meaning and configurability of > > CONFIG_TMPFS. Perhaps it's not a useful config option any more > > (too often needed "y", too little saved by "n"), and yours is > > more useful. But if you want to go this way, you must change > > its name and Documentation and #ifdefs too. > > Perhaps, but calling it CONFIG_TMPFS is not too bad.
Okay, so I come along to clean up after you. Yes, we could work it that way. But somehow I still prefer Matt's patch, which offers a lot more.
Hugh
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