Re: [2.6 patch] make INPUT a bool

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

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.

The better solution is IMHO an additional option:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/7/93
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/7/139

> best,
> Herbert

cu
Adrian

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