From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-tiny@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make vm86 support optional
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:47:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051229184717.GY3356@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051229043900.GD4872@stusta.de>
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:39:00AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:27:35PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >...
> > +config VM86
> > + depends X86
> > + default y
> > + bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
> > + help
> > + This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
> > + code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
> > + XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
> > + option saves about 6k.
> >...
>
> I don't like such space statements ("about 6k") in help texts, since
> history has shown that noone updates them when the actual size
> changes...
What would you prefer? It's important to give a relative size vs
functionality savings so people can decide whether they want a feature
and simply saying a little/a lot is insufficient.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-29 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-28 20:27 [PATCH] Make vm86 support optional Matt Mackall
2005-12-28 20:35 ` Roland Dreier
2005-12-29 4:39 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-29 18:47 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2005-12-29 19:06 ` Adrian Bunk
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