Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:00:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:58 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > There's no reason for getting linux-kernel swamped with
> > "my kernel doesn't boot" messages by people who accidentally disabled 
> > this option.
> 
> By that logic, you should make it necessary to set CONFIG_EMBEDDED
> before you can set CONFIG_EXT3 != Y or CONFIG_IDE != Y too.

That's the difference between Aunt Tillie and a system administrator:
A system administrator knows which filesystems he wants to use.

> However you dress it up, it's pandering to someone who either lacks the
> wit, or just can't be bothered, to _look_ at what they're doing when
> they configure their kernel. And it's a bad thing.

We already have too many user visible options and too many ways for 
people to create non-working kernels.

There's no need for additional traps.

> dwmw2

cu
Adrian

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