Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:44:38 +0100 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] make INPUT a bool |
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:31:21AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:34:11AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:28:32PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > 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. > > > > well, I suggested the following (or a similar) > > change some time ago (unfortunately I could not > > find it in the lkml archives, so it might have > > been lost) > > > > http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/embedded_to_expert.txt > > That's not a good solution since EMBEDDED is really only about > additional space savings - even if you are an "expert", there's no > reason to enable EMBEDDED when building a kernel for systems > with > 50 MB RAM.
well, not sure everybody kows that ...
config X86_P4_CLOCKMOD depends on EMBEDDED
config VT_CONSOLE bool "Support for console on virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED
config VGA_CONSOLE bool "VGA text console" if EMBEDDED
config DNOTIFY bool "Dnotify support" if EMBEDDED
config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
but, the patch was just considered a starting point so that folks would know _what_ EMBEDDED is currently used for ...
> The better solution is IMHO an additional option: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/7/93 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/7/139
whatever, just get rid of the CONFIG_EMBEDDED everybody get's wrong and nobody really understands ...
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